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More specifically, what is known in OTL as the Sakha Republic or Yakutia and the remainder of Russia's Far Eastern Federal District.

Now, historically, most of this area is populated with various ethnic groups, such as Turkic peoples (like the Sakha), indigenous peoples (like the Chukchi), among others. Indeed, no one group dominated this area. If Chinese was introduced in TTL as a lingua franca, that creates some questions: do Chinese words come directly into the various languages, or would they be mediated through different languages, such as Korean (so that a Chinese word would be an approximation of a Sino-Korean word, for example)?
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