Ubykh (Noun)
Meaning
An extinct Caucasian language spoken exclusively in Turkey.
Classification
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents.
Examples
- The Ubykh language was traditionally spoken in the Haci Osman (now Ortacalı) village of Manyas district in Turkey.
- Despite efforts to document and preserve it, the Ubykh language went extinct in 1992 with the death of its last fluent speaker, Tevfik Esenç.
- Before its disappearance, Ubykh was classed as a Northwest Caucasian language within a small language family also known as Abkhaz-Adyghe or Pontic.
- Scholars regard the Ubykh language and its last speaker as an important loss in linguistic and anthropological research due to its unique characteristics.
- The complexity of the Ubykh language's grammar was so notable that it has been cited as one of the most difficult languages to learn and analyze by linguists.