Sakha writing system

Sakha writing system

. Prior to the Novgorodov alphabet, various "ad hoc" phonetic Latin and Cyrillic-based systems had been developed.

Currently only the Cyrillic Sakha alphabet is in use. This script consists of the usual Russian characters but with 5 additional letters: unicode|Ҕҕ, unicode|Ҥҥ, unicode|Өө, unicode|Һһ, unicode|Үү.

Notes

Further reading

* [http://www.omniglot.com/writing/yakut.htm Omniglot entry]
* [http://www.peoples.org.ru/eng_jakut.html Minority Languages of Russia entry]


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