Sakha (Yakut) people

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The Sakha (Yakut) people are a Turkic-speaking Indigenous group of northeastern Siberia, known for their horse and cattle pastoralism, rich epic oral traditions, and cultural adaptation to the extreme climate of the Russian Far East.

All labels observed (5)

Label Occurrences
Yakuts 6
Sakha people 3
Sakha (Yakut) people canonical 2

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (54)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Indigenous people
Turkic people
ethnic group
nomadic pastoralist people
alsoKnownAs Yakut people
Yakuts
autonomousEntity Sakha Republic (Yakutia)
linked to: Sakha Republic
climateAdaptation extreme subarctic climate
culturalFeature jewelry making
rich epic oral traditions
throat singing
wood carving
culturalFestival Yhyakh festival
historicalInfluence Russian Empire
Soviet Union
intangibleHeritage Olonkho epic
languageFamily Turkic languages
locatedIn Russian Far East
linked to: Russia Far East

northeastern Siberia
mainCountry Russia
modernReligion Russian Orthodoxy
nativeName Саха
linked to: Sakha
oralTradition Olonkho epic
populationRegion largest ethnic group in the Sakha Republic
primaryLanguage Sakha language
primaryRegion Sakha Republic
Yakutia
recognizedBy UNESCO
relatedEthnicGroup Dolgan people
Even people
Evenki people
other Turkic peoples
subgroupOf Northern Turkic peoples
linked to: Turkic peoples
traditionalClothing decorated leather clothing
fur garments
traditionalDrink kumys
traditionalEconomy cattle pastoralism
fishing
fur trapping
horse pastoralism
hunting
traditionalFood frozen raw fish (stroganina)
traditionalHousing log houses
yurts
traditionalLivestock Yakut cattle
Yakut horse
traditionalReligion Sakha shamanism
Tengrism
UNESCOStatus Masterpiece of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity (Olonkho)
writingSystem Cyrillic script
YhyakhFestivalType summer solstice festival
YhyakhPractices horse rituals
kumys drinking
rituals to deities

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (14)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Sakha Republic ethnicGroup Sakha (Yakut) people
Siberia ethnicGroup Yakuts
linked to: Sakha (Yakut) people
Tengrism associatedPeople Yakuts
linked to: Sakha (Yakut) people
Olenyok indigenousCulture Yakut culture
linked to: Sakha (Yakut) people
Yakutia ethnicGroup Sakha (Yakut) people
Sakha language ethnicGroup Sakha people
linked to: Sakha (Yakut) people
Sakha language ethnicGroup Yakut people
linked to: Sakha (Yakut) people
Sakha people alsoKnownAs Yakut people
subject linked to: Sakha (Yakut) people
linked to: Sakha (Yakut) people
Sakha people alsoKnownAs Yakuts
subject linked to: Sakha (Yakut) people
linked to: Sakha (Yakut) people
Sakha Academic Theater culturalHeritage Sakha people
linked to: Sakha (Yakut) people
Turkic peoples hasEthnicSubgroup Yakuts
linked to: Sakha (Yakut) people
Eastern Siberia indigenousPeople Yakuts
linked to: Sakha (Yakut) people
Yakut usedByEthnicGroup Sakha people
linked to: Sakha (Yakut) people
Verkhoyansky District hasEthnicGroup Yakuts
linked to: Sakha (Yakut) people