Similarities Between Turkish and Yakut (Siberian Turkic language)

Can Turkish speakers understand other Turkic languages such as Turkmen, Uzbek, Uyghur, Kazakh, Yakut, and others? In this episode we showcase some of the similarities between Yakut (Sakha), a Turkic language spoken in Yakutia, a federal Russian Republic in Siberia, and Turkish. A list of words and sentences will be given to Eray (a Turkish speaker from Turkey) and Artem (Yakut speaker from Yakutia) to see how well they can understand one another. The words share a common Turkic root. Be sure to check out