Sakha Cyrillic alphabet

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The Sakha Cyrillic alphabet is a modified version of the Cyrillic script adapted to represent the specific phonological features of the Sakha (Yakut) language spoken in Siberia.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Sakha Cyrillic alphabet canonical 1
Yakut Cyrillic alphabet 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (71)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Cyrillic script variant
alphabet
writing system
adaptedFor phonology of the Sakha language
associatedWithCountry Russia
associatedWithRegion Sakha Republic
Yakutia
basedOn Russian Cyrillic alphabet
caseDistinction upper and lower case
digitalEncoding Unicode
direction left-to-right
hasDistinctLettersFor front rounded vowels
velar nasal
voiced uvular fricative
hasNumberOfLetters 39
historicalPredecessor Latin-based Yakut alphabet
includesLetter Ё
А
Б
В
Г
Д
Е
Ж
З
И
Й
К
Л
М
Н
О
П
Р
С
Т
У
Ф
Х
Ц
Ч
Ш
Щ
Ъ
Ы
Ь
Э
Ю
Я
Ҕ
ҕ
Ҥ
ҥ
Ү
ү
Һ
Ө
ө
languageFamily Turkic languages
officialStatusIn Sakha Republic
replaced Latin-based Yakut alphabet
scriptDirection horizontal
scriptFamily Cyrillic script
standardizedIn 20th century
usedFor writing the Sakha language
writing the Yakut language
usedIn education in the Sakha Republic
publishing in Sakha language
writingSystemOf Sakha language
Yakut language
linked to: Sakha language
writingSystemType alphabetic

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (2)

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

Sakha language script Sakha Cyrillic alphabet
Turkic scripts hasWritingSystem Yakut Cyrillic alphabet
linked to: Sakha Cyrillic alphabet