Which ethnographer and linguist, born in 1846 into Polish nobility, compiled the first major dictionary of the language spoken by indigenous peoples of Yakutia?

• A Vladimir Bogoraz
• B Edward Piekarski ✓
• C Leopold von Schrenck
• D Nikolai Przhevalsky

Exiled to Yakutia for revolutionary activity, Edward Piekarski spent decades compiling a three-volume Yakut dictionary that remains a foundational reference for Turkic linguistics.