Yakuts

A Yakut family in 1911. The women wear the traditional tall fur hats.

Ethnic group

Group

Yakuts

Population date

444 000 in Sakha (Yakutia), foreign yakuts - 130 000, in Russia - 30 000

Significant populations

RussiaRussia: 444,000 - 600 000 KazakhstanKazakhstan: 31,000 United StatesUSA: 24,000 - 40 000 FranceFrance: 11,000 - 20 000 AustraliaAustralia: 10,000 - 13 000 GermanyGermany: 10,000 CanadaCanada: 9,999 South KoreaKorea: 8 000 UKUK: 7 500 NorwayNorway: 7 000 SwedenSweden: 7 000 NetherlandsNetherlands: 4 000 IrelandIreland: 3 000 New ZealandNew Zealand: 1 600 BrazilBrazil: 1 300 JapanJapan: 900 IndonesiaIndonesia: 490 UkraineUkraine: 306 PolandPoland: 300 ArgentinaArgentina: 76 SpainSpain: 32 PortugalPortugal: 31 SingaporeSingapore: 26 IcelandIceland: 7 CIS countries CIS: 50 000

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Yakuts (Saxalar - Сахалар, Saxa - Саха, Uraankhay - Ураанхай), self-designation: Sakha, are a Turkic people associated with the Sakha (Yakutia) Republic.

The Yakut or Sakha language belongs to the Northern branch of the Turkic family of languages. There are about 456,000 speakers (Russian census, 2002) mainly in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) in the Russian Federation, with some extending to the Amur, Magadan, Sakhalin regions, and the Taymyr and Evenki Autonomous Districts. Out of all population in Yakutia 422,000 are Yakuts or about 39% of the population in Yakutia; their share lowered during Soviet rule due to forced immigration, and other relocation policies, but has slightly increased since. Given the large number of speakers, the Yakut language is considered to be somewhat less endangered than most other regional languages of the Russian Federation.

The Yakuts are divided into two basic groups based on geography and economics. Yakuts in the north are historically semi-nomadic hunters, fishermen, reindeer breeders, while southern Yakuts engage in animal husbandry focusing on horses and cattle.

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