Ubykh
Sign in to saveextinct Northwest Caucasian language once spoken by the Ubykh people
Key facts
- Pronunciation
- /tʷɜxɨbzɜ/
- Native to
- Circassia
- Region
- Ubykhia ( Sochi )
- Ethnicity
- Ubykh
- Extinct
- 7 October 1992, with the death of Tevfik Esenç
- Language family
- Northwest Caucasian Ubykh
- Writing system
- Unwritten, but provisional orthographies have been developed
- Iso 639 3
- uby
- Glottolog
- ubyk1235
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Ubykh was a Northwest Caucasian language once spoken by the Ubykh people, an ethnic group of Circassians who originally inhabited the eastern coast of the Black Sea before being killed or deported en masse by Russia to the Ottoman Empire during the Circassian genocide.