Yakut

 
Pronunciation: /jaˈkʊt/

noun (plural or Yakuts)

  • 1a member of an indigenous people living in scattered settlements in northern Siberia.
  • 2 [mass noun] the Turkic language of the Yakut, which has some 300,000 speakers spread over 2 million square miles.

adjective

  • relating to the Yakut or their language.

Origin:

via Russian from Yakut