Turkic · ISO 639-3 sah
Yakut Language Саха тыла
Yakut is a Turkic language spoken by about 450,000 people in 1 country. It is written in the Cyrillic script.
Where Yakut is spoken
- Official language
- Regional official
- Spoken by 10%+
- 1–10%
- Smaller communities
Countries that speak Yakut
Language family
- Turkic
- Common Turkic
- Sakha-Dolgan
- Yakut
Writing system
Cyrillic script
About the Yakut language
Yakut (Саха тыла) is spoken by about 450,000 people, which makes it the 498th most spoken language in the world — just behind Kaqchikel (500,000) and ahead of Erzya (440,000). It belongs to the Turkic language family and, more precisely, to the Sakha-Dolgan group within the Sakha-Dolgan branch.
Where is Yakut spoken?
Yakut is used in 1 country. The largest communities live in Russia (394,298).
Yakut is not a national official language anywhere. It also has regional official status in Russia.
Writing system and status
Yakut is written in the Cyrillic script. Glottolog classifies it as threatened, meaning fewer children learn it than in the past.
ISO codes: ISO 639-3 sah.
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Data: Languages of the World dataset (MIT) — ISO 639-3, Glottolog (CC BY 4.0), Unicode CLDR, Google LinguaMeta (CC BY 4.0) and Wikidata; country lists: samayo/country-json (MIT). Speaker numbers include first- and second-language speakers where sources report them.