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ALSO KNOWN AS		Sakha, якутский язык, Saxa tıla, Саха тыла, Yakutça, Yakut Türkçesi, Saha Türkçesi, Yakoute, Yakuto, 雅库特语, 야쿠트어, サハ語
CLASSIFICATION		Turkic, Siberian Turkic, Lena Turkic
CODE AUTHORITY		ISO 639-3
LANGUAGE CODE		sah
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Information from: “Contact in the prehistory of the Sakha (Yakuts): Linguistic and genetic perspectives” . Pakendorf, Brigitte (2007) LOT

Vulnerable

60 percent certain, based on the evidence available
456288
Native speakers worldwide
Ethnic population
443,852

DATE OF INFO: 2002 census

TRANSMISSION

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approximately 93% of Sakha know their heritage language

OTHER LANGUAGES USED BY THE COMMUNITY

Russian

LANGUAGE CONTEXT COMMENTS

"Language retention among the Sakha is high – according to the 2002 population census, approximately 93% of Sakha know their heritage language, and only approximately 87% know Russian; among the rural population this figure is even lower, with only approximately 83% of the Sakha claiming a knowledge of Russian (Federal’naja služba gosudarstvennoj statistiki 2004: 19, 24, 113, 130).... In Sakha rural settlements, older people are sometimes still monolingual Sakha speakers, as are children under school age, notwithstanding the fact that often the only television channels that can be received in such settlements are Russian (personal observation)." (p.2)

PLACES: Russian

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: the autonomous Republic Sakha (Yakutia)

406126
Native speakers worldwide

DATE OF INFO: 2010

Vulnerable

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
456288
Native speakers worldwide

DATE OF INFO: 2002 census

PLACES: Russia

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia)

			1982	Grammatika sovremennogo yakutskogo literaturnogo yazyka	Grammatika sovremennogo yakutskogo literaturnogo yazyka		The Grammar of the Modern Literary Yakut Language. Moscow.	Nauka Publishing				L.N. Kharitonov, et al.
			1981	The Languages of the Soviet Union	The Languages of the Soviet Union	42-78		Cambridge University Press				Bernard Comrie
		3rd	2010	Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger				UNESCO Publishing	Paris		http://www.unesco.org/culture/en/endangeredlanguages/atlas	Christopher Moseley (ed.)	Moseley, Christopher (ed.). 2010. Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger, 3rd edn. http://www.unesco.org/culture/en/endangeredlanguages/atlas. (03 June, 2011.)	ll_pub		456288	2002 census	10000-99999			Vulnerable (20 percent certain, based on the evidence available)			Russia	the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia)	62.3496; 130.8691
	35		1964	Über die Sprache der Jakuten	Uralic and Altaic Book Series		Böhtlingk, Otto (1851): Über die Sprache der Jakuten.	Indiana University Publications		Indiana University		Otto Böhtlingk
			2010	Russian Population Census 2010			Actual number of speakers with Yakut ethnicity is 406126 according to 2010 census. Source: online publication by Russian state department of statistics. See p. 158 (PDF 6)			Russian Department of Statistics	http://www.gks.ru/free_doc/new_site/perepis2010/croc/perepis_itogi1612.htm					406126	2010
9789078328421			2007	Contact in the prehistory of the Sakha (Yakuts): Linguistic and genetic perspectives				LOT			https://openaccess.leidenuniv.nl/bitstream/handle/1887/12492/Thesis.pdf	Pakendorf, Brigitte	Pakendorf, Brigitte. 2007. Contact in the prehistory of the Sakha (Yakuts): Linguistic and genetic perspectives. Universiteit Leiden. 170. Utrecht: LOT. 375pp.		443,852	456288	2002 census	10000-99999	Russian	"Language retention among the Sakha is high – according to the 2002 population census, approximately 93% of Sakha know their heritage language, and only approximately 87% know Russian; among the rural population this figure is even lower, with only approximately 83% of the Sakha claiming a knowledge of Russian (Federal’naja služba gosudarstvennoj statistiki 2004: 19, 24, 113, 130).... In Sakha rural settlements, older people are sometimes still monolingual Sakha speakers, as are children under school age, notwithstanding the fact that often the only television channels that can be received in such settlements are Russian (personal observation)." (p.2)	Vulnerable (60 percent certain, based on the evidence available)	11	approximately 93% of Sakha know their heritage language	Russian	the autonomous Republic Sakha (Yakutia)

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456288

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