yakut

noun, plural Ya·kuts, (especially collectively) Ya·kut for 1.

1. a member of a Turkic-speaking people of the Lena River valley and adjacent areas of eastern Siberia.
2. the Turkic language of the Yakut.

noun

1. plural -kuts or -kut a native or inhabitant of the Sakha Republic, in Russia
2. the language of this people, belonging to the Turkic branch of the Altaic family