Explanatory Dictionary of the Yakut Language, 1972–2018

In 2018, the long hard long work of creating the multivolume Sakha tïlïn bïhaarïïlaakh tïld’ïta. Tolkovyj slovar’ jakutskogo jazyka [Explanatory dictionary of the Yakut lan¬guage], in 15 volumes and containing approximately 80,000 words and phraseologisms, was completed. The dictionary represents a corpus of the Yakut national vocabulary. It provides the lexico-semantic structure of words with detailed definitions illustrated by rich material. Undoubtedly, the dictionary is a great achievement of both Yakut and Turkic lexicography in general.