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Those with an interest in the farther reaches of the Turkic language family but lacking in Russian might be interested in this:

A blogger by the name of Justin Smith has translated/adapted the first part of L. N. Kharitonov's Soviet-era Самоучитель якутского языка for English-speakers, including the key to the exercises, and posted it online here:

https://www.jehsmith.com/1/2019/07/sakh ... nOmMVORVKo

He's evidently still working on the rest of the book, which hopefully will appear eventually.

Further to this earlier post, Mr. Smith recently completed his translation of the Kharitonov textbook; the complete volume is available here:

https://www.jehsmith.com/files/sakha-080120.pdf

The solutions to the exercises in the book are here:

https://www.jehsmith.com/files/sakha-answers-080120.pdf

And the vocabulary is here:

https://www.jehsmith.com/files/sakha-di ... 100120.pdf

For those who DO know Russian, and would like to hear the language spoken, some fairly extensive audio, with explanations in Russian, to "Мин сахалыы билэбин (Я говорю по-якутски)" is available here, but I haven't been able to find the text of this, if it exists:

https://sakhatyla.ru/pages/audio-min-sakhalyy-bilebin