Yakut Manual

John R. Krueger, Indiana University.

• PART ONE - AREA HANDBOOK THE LAND AND ITS FEATURES 1. The USSR and Yakutia 2. Location, Size and Population 3. Geography and Climate 4, Flora and Fauna 5. Communications and Travel; The City of Yakutsk, 6. Natural Resources, Agriculture, Stock-Breeding, Industry THE PEOPLE AND THEIR INSTITUTIONS 7. Origins and Legends; Early Contact with Russians 8. Yakut Life in the 19th Century 9. Arts and Crafts; Music 10. Literature and Folklore 11. Education and Culture; Public Services 12. Printing and Publications 13. Political System and Social Organization; Leading Personalities 14. The Name "Yakut" PART TWO- GRAMMAR INTRODUCTION 0.1 General Characteristics of the Altaic Languages 0.2 Classification of the Turkic Languages 0.3 The Characteristics and Position of Yakut Turkish 0.4 Yakut-Osmanh Linguistic Parallels PHONOLOGY 1.0 Early Alphabets and Investigations of Yakut 1.1 Vowels and Diphthongs 1.2 Consonants 1.3 Accent; Juncture MORPHOLOGY 2.0 Word-Classes in Yakut 2. 1 Nominals 2. 2 The Case System of Yakut 2.3 Possession in Yakut 2.4 Pronouns 2.5 Numerals 2.6 Adjectival Formations 2.7 Adverbial Usages and Forms 2.8 Derivation in Nouns 2.9 Postpositional Nouns 3.0 Verbals 3. 1 Tenses of the Verb 3.2 The Converb 3. 3 Moods 3. 4 Secondary Verbal Formations 3. 5 Word Formation in Verbals PART THREE - GRADED READER, OTHER READING SELECTIONS, PART FOUR- YAKUT-ENGLISH GLOSSARY, GLOSSARY, KEY - Translations to all Reading Selections.