For those who are interested in learning more about Sakha/Yakut language, welcome to my second channel: Let's speak Sakha kzfaq.info/love/2aGXdy9FMVgSHGPZACnd9w 😀

Türkiye' den selamlar. Hello from Turkey.

Our Turkic language is very beautiful, it is the common heritage of our ancestors. Please protect your language. Greetings from Turkey...

I am from Ireland, and my native language is dying very quickly. I was lucky enough to go to an Irish school, where we only spoke Irish. But most other children on the island went to English schools. There are very few native speakers of Irish left in the country. And most Irish people can’t speak Irish fluently. It makes me sad. Our language will probably be gone in 100 years. But I admire how other small nations are preserving their languages so well. We are proud of you! We know how hard it is. We may have lost our language, but we will support other indigenous nations who are working hard to keep theirs! Good job!

The Yakut language is really beautiful, and it's soothing to listen to you speak it.

Much love from Mongolia to my sakha uriankhai brothers may tengri bless you!

Sakha: Üüt, Ynakh Turkish: Süt, İnek XD

Дауысыныз да тура кулакка жагымды,жанга тыныштык сыйлайды екен.Аман журиниз❤💐‼️

Hi Maria! I am from the Basque Country in Spain, here we speak Basque, it is a minority language spoken here and in the French Basque Country area. It was about to disappear some decades ago but now more and more people are learning it. To keep it alive we have TV channels, radio and music. You can study in basque since kindergarten until university and also go to basque schools to learn the language (euskaltegis). We say that to be basque you don’t need to be born here, every person who speaks basque is basque 🤗 Love your channel! Greetings!!

Greetings from Turkey, your videos are so good! It's always nice to hear Turkic languages from different parts of the world.

You have such a kind and warm aura about you and I love your voice.

In Turkish, the letter "y" at the beginning of the word turns into the letter "s" in Sakha language. Y>S ön ses değişimi.. Turkish : Sakha Yol : Suol Yıl : Sıl Yumak : Suumak Yağmur : Samıır Yıldız : Suldız Yalamak : Salamak Yaka : Sağa Yüzmek : Süzmek

I’m a Kabyle, but I was born and raised in the United States, and my parents are immigrants from Algeria. My language, tamazight, is dying as well since most Kabyles are starting to speak French or Arabic. I try and preserve it by making sure I can speak it fluently and that I speak it with my sisters.

I am Azerbaijani Turk.We are here talking 95% in Azerbaijani Turkish language.5% people speak russian luggage and other luggage

I live in California but I was born and raised on an island of Kyushu ( Japan ). I speak to my son in Japanese although he may or may not understand because he was born with autism spectrum disorder and intellectual disorder. I try to keep my culture alive by eating Japanese food , speaking Japanese and practicing our tradition and culture. Love your videos 💕🥰

I'm really happy your channel is growing so fast lately. A few months ago I was afraid you would give up but you kept going and now you're going through the roof! You are doing such an important work, showing the Yakutian way of life to people on the other side of the planet, like me. Keep it up!

Hello Maria : As an Uyghur, I can see and feel that we share a lot of similarities in culture, language, and more. Really love your content, Keep up and make more awesome content like this one. I would love to know more about your culture. Yakutiya'ya salam lar bolsun ! Edit: I almost forgot to write, that we are from the same root.

Hello! I am Turkish and my language is Turkic, too. I am learning Yakut language, that's a bit hard but we have so many common words and grammar rules, that makes Yakut easy for me😊 You have a great language and culture, I love Yakuts💙. I hope your channel will be bigger soon.

Hi Maria! I'm a sociolinguist based in Okinawa, Japan, and doing work on endangered languages there. This video was so informative and enjoyable for me! Thank you! Based on your description, it sounds as though Yakut might fall on Level 4 (transmitted through public education system) on Joshua Fishman's Graded Intergenerational Disruption Scale, but is also used for local and regional mass media and public services. However, you noted that Yakut is becoming increasingly vulnerable because children are starting to prefer Russian over Yakut. My question is, why do you think Yakut children are starting to use Russian more, when their whole families are native speakers of Yakut? I'm doing research on the Yaeyama language, which is critically endangered (8a or 8b, "Moribund"). It has about 1,000 full native speakers left, almost all of which are over the age of 70. Yaeyama is not the language of education in the region where it is natively spoken. At present there are some radio programs and special events where local people can use Yaeyama, but the Japanese government does not permit classes to be held in public schools, and our generation (child-bearing generation) can neither speak nor understand it. I'm trying to find ways to combat language loss, hence my question to you. Best Regards!

450 thousand speakers? That's amazing. Glad to hear your language is being kept alive and well.

I can speak Turkish so I understand you when you said my name is Maria in yakut language , in turkish is benim adım Maria. But I couldn’t understand anything else, maybe because I’m not a native speaker of turkish language

Until a few days ago I had never heard of your city, your Republic, your people or your language. Your videos are interesting and informative. Thanks for posting them.

And may the Sakha language be kept alive along with it's culture and traditions.

I am a Métis person (from Canada). Unfortunately, our native languages are dying (Canadian French and Michif) and fewer and fewer people are speaking them. Only a few hundred people are native speakers of Michif :( The English committed a very effective cultural genocide against us.

love sakhalar from turkey 💕🙏

Hi Maria! My first language is Hungarian and we also have vowel harmony and this is also agglutinative language. When you speaks Sakha at the end the tone is quite similar to the Hungarian to me.

So I’m preserving your language by learning it! I am fluent in Turkish and I’m also semi fluent In Uzbek.

I am from Turkey and a Turksih girl. We are sisters. We have common ancestors, history, and culture. I want to leran more about Yakut language. I would be glad, if you could tell me some Yakut movies which are in Yakut langauge. Thank you so much. Have a nice day and keep going. Regards from Turkey!

as a turkic, yakut language sounds so beautiful. and its really easy to learn for me because of connection between two languages. turkic languages really changed by time with other languages effection. i like that you want to protect your language

Yakut language sounds beautiful and natural, I hope it is preserved for generations.

Hi! I am Polish from Southern Poland and living in Hungary for 11 years already, my husband is Hungarian and we have a son, who's name is Tamerlan. I speak Hungarian too, I enjoy the Ugric linguistics, I find it very amazing that a lot of Turan people celebrate their culture, we have even a festival in Hungary called Kurultáj, I was once there and it was amazing. Although Polish is not a rare language I feel many Poles forgets to speak the nice Polish so I decided to speak proper Polish to my son to make him know his mother language from the very beginning. I love to show him Polish music, poems, culture and of course food :) greetings from Budapest!

Your language sounds beautiful. Thank you for sharing with us!

greetings from uzbekistan，we can understand yakut very good😉 we all turks❤

Lots of love to you from Turkey❤️ we are brothers and sisters ❤️❤️❤️

Sakha tyla sounds sooo nice! Maria, to popularize your language, you might consider teaching basic phrases to your viewers such as наьаа учугэй видео or Махтал etc.

Hi sis! first of all im native turkic language speaker.. Im Turkemen originally.. and turkic languages always fascinated me.. so I started to read more about them..I live in Germany because I was born here and my parents work here for their living.. and we use to speak turkish at home and German outside.. ofc we get influenced by german which is more and more influenced by english.. so whenever I met to turkic language speaker I try to talk to them in turkish the way they might understand me well.. as long as they dont need my help to learn german.. I have a almost 2 years old nephew. he was born in germany also but we only talk turkish to him and let him mostly watch turkish animations.. but children always find their way.. )) Even if we have diffrent religions for now our cultures have the same base so we still have cultural rituals and belives which belong to shamnism... anyways Take care

Hi , I understood when you said ben adim. My name is. Same in Turkiye. Also I picked up when you said balik which means fish. Same in Turkiye too. Sending lot of hugs from Turkiye

Every little region in Italy has its own little dialect, some you can understand if you speak Italian and some you don't. I live in the extreme Northern part of the country (in the Alps), my dialect is its own language and not mutually intelligible with Italian. Unfortunately my mother was not as good as you are and didn't want me to learn it. In Italy there's this idea that dialects are crude and rugged, the language of the ignorants, while Italian is the language of the cultured people. For this reason less and less children in Italy are learning their religional languages. I'm lucky to have been born in the countryside, here dialects are more preserved and in my town even teenagers and children speak it. I still have a hard time speaking it, but I understand and know it very well. N pensee i 'n abrasc da la Lumbardia 🥰 a thought and a hug from Lombardy (Italy) 🥰

I will learn Saxa language and visit you before I die brothers! Maybe as Turkic peoples we couldn't see each other for 2000 years but today I really want to understand you and your language. I still find your history amazing. We Turkish people went to the Balkans, far west :D You went to the far north. So one wonder what happened to you...

Hey Maria! Thanks for your interesting video's. i'm from the Netherlands and I live in the northern part. Our province is called Fryslân, and we speak Frisian, ( i was raised bilingual) which is a minority language. Officially it is the second language of the Netherlands, and you are allowed to speak it in court of at any other formal situation. But since not so many people (400.000 at the moment) speak it, it isn't used that much in formal situations. I speak it all the time, unless someone is talking Dutch to me. I try to keep it alive by talking( at home, work, supermarket, whereever possible), writing (on whatsapp and email), reading, watching telly and listening radio and sometimes music, and talking about our language to people who don't know. Just like your language, i hope it won't vanish!

I love this channel. Yakutia is also very meaningful. This is great, Thanks Maria. Greetings from Turkey.❤️

I'm from Turkey and I'm really interested in the Yakut language since it's so different than other Turkic languages. We other Turkic nations can understand each other if we speak slow but Yakut language is probably close to the old Turkic language, without much effect from foreign languages. We have a lot of Arabic Persian and French words but Yakut probably not so interesting. I'm a Turkish teacher on Instagram so I would love to make a video together about how similar it is, so we can compare. 😊

Here from Scotland and to answer your question we are now finnaly opening some of the first Gaelic school's!

I think it'd be nice to hear a conversation between you and another Yakut speaker in Yakut language :) I'm from Australia, and although English is our main language, there are over 250 indigenous languages. Unfortunately I don't know an indigenous language as none of them are taught in school, some languages were almost forgotten too, as due to terrible past events in Australia indigenous people were told not to speak it, and have now in some cases having to relearn their own first language in attempt to keep it alive.

I would love to learn some phrases and vocabulary in your language :) I am learning Turkish now, and it sounds very similar indeed.

I'm so glad that you are making an effort to keep the language and culture alive and well! I would love to have a book on Yakut fairy tales and Olonkho.

Wow you’re an English teacher! I used to teach English as a 2nd language. I’d be interested to see a video about your work day after your maternity leave is over! 😉

it's so fascinating to learn about your life and culture, if your channel wasn't recommended to me, I would have never known about your culture. thank you so much for sharing! it's truly wonderful to see. As I understand, the climate of Yakutia is similar to Dras in India :) would love to visit your part of the world someday

I from Chile, my mother tongue and that of the majority of the population here is Spanish. However, Before the arrival of the Spaniards was mapudungun, a language that today very few speak, is quite sad and I hope we can do something. Your work in teaching his nation's culture is admirable, and a greeting to all the Turkish-speaking people I saw that there are several.

I think Yakut sounds gorgeous, like a cross between Finnish and Turkish. I'm very familiar with the sound of Turkish because a lot of people speak Turkish where I live in London. One of my old books ("Teach Yourself Turkish" from 1953) says it's possible to travel all the way through Central Asia into China speaking Istanbul Turkish and people will still understand you! I'm not sure how true that is now, bearing in mind that the book was written 70 years ago... I started learning Russian so I can visit Siberia one day. I have to say it is by far the most difficult language I've ever attempted. Far harder than Japanese. I've been learning Japanese very slowly for years and that is an agglutinative language, just like Yakut. I think the grammar is far more logical than any European language. 📺 PS re the cartoons, can't they launch a children's TV channel in Yakut? It's not particularly expensive to dub cartoons. The Welsh TV channel S4C broadcasts cartoons nearly all day and only puts adult programming in the evenings. About 400,000-500,000 people speak Welsh as a first language and about the same number again speak second language Welsh. But for a language to survive it has to be spoken by and used by children! It's great that so many people are willing to learn it as a second language but that's not enough to keep any language alive. Only first language speakers can keep a language alive!

I hope you continue to teach your language to the world. ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

Dear sister , I love the language , Yakut is a unique Turkic language and I think most well preserved one , ! It would be great to teach our kids Kagans and the Gokturk empire as we were unified for the first time inthe history this will provide your kids the sence of belonging to a huge family with our own alphabet and counting system and calendar

Мне очень нравится твоих видеороликов! Привет из Румынии !!

It is very interesting for me to listen to Yakut language which is foreign for me (I'm German) - though the sound reminds me with the vowels of Turkish, but some consonants sound Mongolian. In my region the traditional dialect (Low German Language) died out with the generation of my grandparents because people stopped speaking it at home. There use to be one page in our local newspaper in it, but the newpaper stopped this page like 10 years ago, because there where hardly any speakers left. Once people don't use it in every day life it is very hard that the language survives and even harder to revive it.

This is another lovely video! Thank you, I really like watching them they make me feel peaceful.

OMG, this channel is precious!!! Keep it up, pls! Love from Brazil!

I'm from Scotland, so we have Gaelic (similar to Irish, though quite distinct). For various historic reasons, primarily because it was actively discouraged in favour of English which is the main language now, it's spoken by almost nobody as a first language. We have Gaelic schools in some parts of the country, so Children can be taught from primary age in Gaelic and English. Also, most road signs and emergency vehicles are written in Gaelic and English (especially in the highlands and islands). I think it's an important part of our history as a culture going back hundreds of years. It would be really sad to see the language die totally.

I am a language nerd. I absolutely loved this video as well as all of your other videos. I know some Turkish and I could pick out some similar words when you were speaking. I have been learning Welsh for over 3 years.

whoaaaah this is so interesting! Yakut language sounds so nice

you are so sweet!!!! as a language student i really appreciate that you actually put some general information about the language in the video, apart from just common sentences or slangs you are doing an wonderful job with the channel, love from brasil

Thank you, Maria! You are an incredible person and I'm so happy to have found your channel, may it continue to grow! I wish you and your family every happinnes

Hello, Thanks for sharing your language, im from Philippines my language is Tagalog. GOD BLEss you 🙏🤗

I vow to watch your ads on your videos, stay the whole time, and like and comment everytime! I can't wait to see the progress of your channel

Love from Turkey to our Turkic brothers and sisters 🤗

So nice and interesting videos have you Maria💕 👍 for me your language sounds like Turkish.

Я уважаю ваш видео. Крепко держите родной язык!

This is the first time I've seen your videos and I'm delighted to learn about your home and the people of Yakutia.

Акылды сондай керемет жансыз❤💐

Hi Maria! I am from Mexico and my Native language is also agglutinative (Nawatl). I understand lots of words and phrases but don't converse in my mother's language. I am trying to practice it more and hope to speak it more in the future. Myak Pakilistli Yankik Xiwitl!! (Much Felicitations for new year).

I'm an Amazigh from Morocco my native language is Amazigh and I try to speak it most of time to preserve it . Good luck

When you mention the quality of education, that is totally reflected in your video and the talking points you have shared with us about your language and culture. Thanks for sharing! Now it makes me want to visit your town!

Hi Maria. Always love your videos ❤️ Thank you for giving us knowledge about life in Yakutia, also the culture and language. I wish I can go to Yakutia someday 😊 Love from Indonesia ❤️

Thank you for this video. I was wondering how your voice would sund when speaking you native language. Now I know. Your English is really impressive, I know how hard it is to learn for someone with your linguistic background. That being said, I'm already impressed how much work there is done to preserve the Yakut language: books, schools, even films. With around 20 million speakers around the world, we don't really have a minority-language, but it is hard enough to keep it alive. Literature is a very important aspect of it. Languages without written literature are bound to be forgotten at some point. So, the main answer is: more books. I understand there isn't a traditional Yakut-script? It never existed? Well, maybe there is no need if the Cyrillic alphabet does meet your needs.

I love learning about other native languages. I'm Maltese, and our language has around the same number of languages as yours. Although I went to an English speaking school and didn't speak it well for the first 14 years of my life but then I made the conscious effort to learn it after reading about how indigenous languages in South America were dying out because younger people weren't picking them up. We have the same problem here, my 2 siblings hardly speak Maltese and many of my friends don't speak it fluently. Children's media is so important to help foster curiosity in children and teach them a language. Because there isn't much good kids media in Maltese here, many are growing up speaking English with an American accent.

Such beautiful language Maria, thanks for sharing another nice part of your culture!

I'd love to learn more about Olonkho! Loved hearing you speak your native language, your videos are all so fascinating and they just get better and better.

пару слов уловила похожих на казахский, но это естественно, ведь у нас одно семейство языков 😉

I am so glad that the Sakha language is widely spoken! As a Korean teacher, I was very curious about whether the Sakha language is still being used today. The Sakha language is related to Korean. Let's work hard to develop Altaic languages together!

Really interesting video, thanks for sharing different aspects of your life.

Thank you for the great video presentation!

8:00 "We live in Yakutsk but i am from Nam... " "Fortunate son" starts playing the sound of the chopper gets louder

Maria, can you recommend us any Yakut movies? Also, congrats on breaking the 10k subscriber count and hope you get to 100k!

Your channel is a nice change from the videos about political/election chaos & social turmoil going on in the US. Thank you!

I love your channel! Is very educational an interesting! Thank you! Greetings from Piriapolis, Uruguay

It sure sounds different but i can still understand what you say when i focused. Even with the mongolian and russian words in betweens, it can still be easily observed as a turkic language. I am from Turkey. Greetings.

Sakha tyla sounds amazing! Maybe you can teach the language, would be a great resource!

This is great. I got interested about yakutia/sakha yesterday and this vid came in perfectly in time.

Sounds so beautiful😙 love your channel about yakutsk😊 much love from germany ❤

Reminds me so much of Turkish and sounds very similar! :)

Hi, Maria, I’m from Lithuania. Even though there are about 3 million of us but a lot of people left the country in search of a better life abroad. As for us, Lithuanians love their country and teach children the language. However, English is commonly used among young generation and some old words are replaced. We worry a lot and yet hope for the best :) Lithuanian is a Baltic language coming from Indoeuropean language family group. Besides us, only Latvians are considered speaking a Baltic language, even though sometimes we are mistakenly put under the umbrella of Slavic languages... :(

I love your videos Maria, your wonderful smile and demeanor make me very happy 💚💚 kisses from Ireland

Thank you for doing this one on my birthday- a wonderful present. Another one for basic phrases would be nice.

Thanks so much for your perspective! Sometimes I feel really sad that our local dialect is dying (only elder people still speak it), it makes me glad to see an ethnic minority's language being taken care of.

Saha yakut Türkçesi ile Türkiye Türkçesi arasında 1500 yıl ayrılık vardır.Atatürk zamanında bu iki lehçe arasında sözlük hazırlamış,şu an milli kütüphanededir😀👍🙏👏❤️🇹🇷

This language is so fascinating! Thanks for sharing your insight with us :)

Great video. It is great to see indigenous languages thriving, I hope the Yakut language continues to be used in Yakutia. Greetings from Ireland :)

I think videos like this: videos from natives are just as important as work that linguistics do

I had a girlfriend from Moldova who's father died because he didn't comply with the Russification process, and he was advocating for the local/native language. I think its important to teach the children the native language, because at first they might not see the point of learning it (because they want to integrate to big/international community), BUT once they're older and they integrated, they will realize that they have a special feature which is part of their identity: their native language/ethnicity. So if they didn't learn their language at a young age, they find it difficult to learn it later and just abandon it. That's what you're both doing a favor to the children and to the community if you teach them the native language.

Your voice is sooo soft(like asmr)Love from Azerbaijan 💜

Thank you so much. I love all your videos and it is so nice to learn about you culture and language.