About the Origin of the Language of Sakha People (An Ethnographer's Notes)
In the article an attempt is made to reconstruct the formation of the Yakut language, since the most ancient times. The author traces the periods, since the Nostratic linguistic community, its disintegration into 6 nowadays existing language families of Eurasia and till the emergence and the subsequent disintegration of the Turkic language group in the system of Altaistika and further formation on this background of one the ancient (early) Turkic languages - the Yakut language. The article especially draws attention to the origin of formation of the future language of the Sakha people in the territory of the north-western regions of Central Asia and Southern Siberia under the conditions of the culture of the Scythian-Siberian era (VII-III centuries BC), when in these territories the classical nomadism formation process continued, i.e. the era of early nomadic cattle. It became the basis for the future of the Ancient Turkic times (VI-X cc.). According to the author, the gradual addition and replacement of the linguistic, cultural and anthropological appearance of the population living on the border of Southern Siberia and Central Asia took place on the basis of the economic, cultural and linguistic influence of Iranian-speaking cattlemen of the western regions of Central Asia and Southern Siberia. This process intensified under the conditions of the next stage of ethnic history - the Hunno-Sarmatian (late 3rd century BC - 5th century AD). On this basis, we made an attempt to show the formation of one of early and therefore original Turkic languages among the modern Altaic-speaking environment, the language of the Sakha people.