Contact in the prehistory of the Sakha (Yakuts): Linguistic and genetic perspectives

• Main Author: Pakendorf, B.
• Other Authors: Kortlandt, F.H.H., Comrie, B., Leiden University
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: LOT 2007
• Subjects: Language contact; Molecular Anthropology; Siberian languages; Turkic languages; Evenki; Sakha; Evenk; Evenks; lena river; Sakha language; Yakuts
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/1887/12492

This study analyses the prehistory of a northeastern Siberian population, the Sakha (Yakuts), from both a linguistic and a molecular-genetic perspective. The Sakha, who are a Turkic-speaking group of cattle- and horse-breeders, migrated to the Lena river from an area further to the south several hun...