Some believe that it is a dialect of Yakut language. Exhausted, he is picked up in the wilderness by Yakut hunters. First as a sparring partner of well-known fighters like Sahin Yakut and Dennis "Rus" Sharoykin. Sakha was home to the last stage of the Russian Civil War, the Yakut Revolt. One characteristic feature of Yakut is vowel harmony. Most Yukaghirs today speak Yakut and Russian. In certain areas the influences of the Yakut and the Buryat languages are particularly strong. The village's name means "White Mountain" in the Yakut and Dolgan languages. Currently only the Cyrillic Yakut alphabet is in use. In 1922, Ayan was one of the centers of the Yakut Revolt against Lenin's government. All the other 63 deities of the Yakut pantheon are his manifestations. The Sakha/Yakut language belongs to the North Siberian of the Siberian Turkic languages. There are three varieties of Turkic geographically outside the continuum&colon; Chuvash, Yakut and Dolgan. No speakers are monolingual, since all speak Russian and most speak Yakut. They besieged the city of Erzurum when its governor Yakut refused to surrender it.