Дорообо!
say it: “doh-ROH-boh”
Yakut (Sakha)
in its own words: саха тыла
- Speakers
- 450 thousand (estimate)
- Family
- Turkic
- Vitality
- Vulnerable
- Where it is spoken
- Russian Federation
- Script
- Cyrillic
- Official language
- Russian Federation (regional)
Fun fact
Yakut (Sakha) is the northernmost Turkic language and has many Mongolic loanwords. It is spoken in Yakutia, home to Oymyakon and Verkhoyansk, the coldest permanently inhabited places on Earth.