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  • noun Plural form of Yakut.

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Examples

  • Of the native peoples of northern Siberia the Yakuts are the most numerous.

    Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania Jewett Castello Gilson

  • The Yakuts are the largest, and are known for their olonkho songs and the khomus, a Jew's harp or jaw harp.

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows 2009

  • The nomadic herding tribes of Siberia, the Tatars, Yakuts, Mongols, Saami and Chukchi start with the birth of the baby animals, the reindeer, caribou, and horses, upon which their cultures depend.

    Donna Henes: New Year: Here We Go Again! Donna Henes 2011

  • The nomadic herding tribes of Siberia, the Tatars, Yakuts, Mongols, Saami and Chukchi start with the birth of the baby animals, the reindeer, caribou, and horses, upon which their cultures depend.

    Donna Henes: New Year: Here We Go Again! Donna Henes 2011

  • The nomadic herding tribes of Siberia, the Tatars, Yakuts, Mongols, Saami and Chukchi start with the birth of the baby animals, the reindeer, caribou, and horses, upon which their cultures depend.

    Donna Henes: New Year: Here We Go Again! Donna Henes 2011

  • Zimov started the park with a herd of 40 Yakutian horses, a semi-wild breed with a handsomely long mane that is raised by Yakuts and other native people for their meat.

    Russian Scientist Working To Recreate Ice Age Ecosystem AP 2010

  • In fact, far from being an undifferentiated "semi-Asiatic" mass, the Red Army was ethnically diverse, containing Yakuts and Kazakhs as well as Russians and Ukrainians.

    The Real Patriotic War Applebaum, Anne 2006

  • Also in 2006 another research team used the faster Y-chromosome mutation rate observed by Kayser of 2.8 per 1000 to calculate the date of migration of Yakuts.

    The Book of Mormon, DNA, Native Americans, and Archaeology 2006

  • The few native Siberians (Evenks, Yakuts, Tuvins, Buryats, and Khakases, among others), once disparagingly termed inorodtsy ( "those born of another stock") by the Russians, and natsmeny ( "national minorities") by the Bolsheviks, have effectively been disenfranchised by their Slavic neighbors-turned�conquerors.

    This Side of Ultima Thule 1997

  • It's even been merged with Christianity among the Yakuts.

    A Cold Red Sunrise Kaminsky, Stuart M. 1988

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