Ubykh
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A language of Turkey
Alternate Names
Oubykh, Pekhi, Ubyx
User Population
No known L1 speakers. The last speaker, Tevfik Esenç, died in 1992.
Location
Istanbul province: Sea of Marmara area, Haci Osman village.
Language Status
10 (Extinct).
Typology
SOV; agglutinative and polysynthetic; case-marking (3 cases); verb affixes mark subject, direct object and indirect object; ergative; past, present and future tenses; 84 consonant and 2 vowel phonemes, more consonants than any other language without clicks.
Language Use
A century ago, there were 50,000 speakers in the Caucasus valleys east of the Black Sea. Shifted to Adyghe [ady].
Most migrated to Turkey in 1894.