Back Аубла бызшәа Abkhazian Убыхыбзэ ADY لغة الوبخ Arabic Idioma ubijé AST Ubıx dili Azerbaijani উবুখ ভাষা Bengali/Bangla Oubic'heg Breton Убых хэлэн BXR Ubikh Catalan Ubykhisk Danish
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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, an ethnic group of Circassian nation 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.