a member of a Turkic people of northeastern Siberia (mainly in the Lena river basin)
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the Turkic language spoken by the Yakut
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Yakut \Ya*kut"\, n. The Turkish language of the Yakuts, a Mongolian people of northeastern Siberia, which is lingua franca over much of eastern Siberia. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]