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.