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APPENDIX.
YAKUT TRAVEL PHRASES.
In order to know a people thoroughly you must learn
their language. Unfortunately I had not time to learn
Yakut enough to be able to converse easily with the
natives. But in a mixed gibberish of Yakut-Russian I was
able from the beginning to exchange ideas with some of
them, and later on I began to understand their conversation,
which usually turned on the work of their daily life—namely,
fish and fishing. Without pretending to compete with
Baedeker by producing a Guide to the Yakut Language, I
may perhaps venture to give a few specimens of the
language.
On first coming among the Yakuts the ear of the traveller
constantly catches, nolens volens, the word: “Ä-ä!”[1]
Wherever there are Yakuts, the air vibrates with “Ä-ä!”
And this is a very useful word, by means of which you
can get far. It is difficult to translate, but corresponds
somewhat to the English words: “Yes,” “Just so,” “You
know!”
If, for example, a Yakut asks you: “Sakali bilän do?”
(Can you speak Yakut?), and, instead of answering: “Sokk,
toiön!” (No, sir) or “Sakali bilbeppin” (I do not know
the Yakut language), you simply say: “Ä-ä!” he will give
[1] Ä pronounced as a in “an”, A as in the word “father”, Ö as “e” in
“her”.
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