Yakut

/jæˈkʊt/
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Other forms: Yakuts

Definitions of Yakut
  1. noun
    a member of a Turkic people of northeastern Siberia (mainly in the Lena river basin)
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    type of:
    Turki
    any member of the peoples speaking a Turkic language
  2. noun
    the Turkic language spoken by the Yakut
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    type of:
    Turki, Turkic, Turkic language, Turko-Tatar
    a subfamily of Altaic languages
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