There are 4 stages in the history of Yakut writing systems:
- until the early 1920s – writing based on the Cyrillic alphabet;
- 1917–1929 – Novgorodov's writing system, which is based on the Latin alphabet;
- 1929–1939 – a unified alphabet on the Latin basis;
- since 1939 – writing based on the Cyrillic alphabet.