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Ubykh
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extinct 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
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
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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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ubykh” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.