Locale Sah Ru
Use when working with the Sakha (Russia) locale (`sah-RU`) — its endonym Саха тыла (Россия), Cyrillic script, left-to-right (LTR) direction, or spoken-population data. Reference data and translation guidance (register, grammar, idiom, typography) for this specific locale; see [[locale]] for general i18n/l10n concepts (BCP 47, plural rules, RTL) that apply across all locales.
Reference data for the Sakha (Russia) locale — endonym Саха тыла (Россия), written in the Cyrillic script, left-to-right (LTR).
Identifiers
- BCP 47 tag:
sah-RU - ISO 639-1: not assigned
- ISO 639-3:
sah - Script: Cyrl (Cyrillic)
- Region: RU (Russia)
- Text direction: ltr — left-to-right (LTR)
Speakers (approximate)
- L1 (native): 450,000
- L2 (additional): 100,000
- L1+L2 (total): 550,000
Pluralization
CLDR plural categories for this locale: other (1 form).
- other — everything else (e.g. 0~15, 100, 1000, 10000, …)
See Unicode Messageformat for writing plural messages using these categories.
Translating into this locale
Sakha (Yakut, саха тыла) is a Turkic language of the Sakha Republic (Yakutia) in Russia, written in Cyrillic with additional letters (ҕ, ҥ, ө, ү, һ and the digraph дь). It is an official language of the republic alongside Russian. This guidance is lower-confidence; have a native reviewer check it.
Translate ideas, not words.
- Do not translate through Russian. Sakha is agglutinative with subject-object-verb order, vowel harmony, and long suffix chains.
- Use Sakha terminology where it exists (from the Sakha Republic's language institutions), not raw Russian loanwords.
- Re-express idioms by meaning.
Grammar and register.
- Vowel harmony; case suffixes; no grammatical gender. Sakha distinguishes informal and polite "you" forms; use the polite form in UI and public text and confirm it with a native reviewer.
Orthography and typography.
- Use ҕ, ҥ, ө, ү, һ and the digraph дь correctly; never replace them with Russian look-alikes.
- Long and short vowels (including diphthongs and long vowels written double) matter in spelling.
- Quotation marks
«…»; decimal comma; ruble; dates as in Russian.
Common pitfalls
- Replacing Sakha letters with Russian look-alikes.
- Using Russian syntax.
- Breaking vowel harmony.
Learn more
- Locale for BCP 47 identifiers, locale-sensitive formatting, pluralization, and text-direction concepts that apply across all locales.
- Unicode Messageformat for writing plural/selection messages correctly for this locale's grammar.
- Institute for Humanitarian Research and Indigenous Peoples of the North, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences
- Unicode CLDR locale data for sah (https://cldr.unicode.org)