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| Ubykh | |
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| tuex̂ıbze | |
| Pronunciation | /tʷɜxɨbzɜ/ |
| Native to | Circassia |
| Region | Sochi |
| Ethnicity | Ubykh |
| Extinct | 7 October 1992, with the death of Tevfik Esenç |
Northwest Caucasian
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| Unwritten, but provisional orthographies have been developed | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | uby |
| Glottolog | ubyk1235 |
 Ubykh (extinct) | |
 Ubykh is classified as Extinct according to the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger [1] | |
Ubykh is an extinct Northwest Caucasian language once spoken by the Ubykh people, a subgroup of Circassians who originally inhabited the eastern coast of the Black Sea before being deported en masse to the Ottoman Empire in the Circassian genocide.[2]
The Ubykh language is ergative and polysynthetic, with a high degree of agglutination, with polypersonal verbal agreement and a very large number of distinct consonants but only two phonemically distinct vowels. With around eighty consonants, it has one of the largest inventories of consonants in the world,[3] and the largest number for any language without clicks.
The name Ubykh is derived from Убых (/wɨbɨx/), from Убыхыбзэ, its name in the Adyghe language. It is known in linguistic literature by many names: variants of Ubykh, such as Ubikh, Oubykh (French); and its Germanised variant Päkhy (from Ubykh /tʷɜχɨ/).
- ^ Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger (Report) (3rd ed.). UNESCO. 2010. p. 31.
- ^ Koerner, E. F. K. (1 January 1998). First Person Singular III: Autobiographies by North American Scholars in the Language Sciences. John Benjamins Publishing. p. 33. ISBN 978-90-272-4576-2.
- ^ King, Charles (2008). The Ghost of Freedom. p. 15.