Ubykh

A language of Turkey

ISO 639: uby
Alternate Names: Oubykh, Pekhi, Ubyx
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).
Classification: Abkhaz-Adyghe, Ubyx
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].
Language Resources: OLAC resources in and about Ubykh
Writing: Unwritten [Qaax].
Other Comments: Most migrated to Turkey in 1894.

Location: Istanbul province: Sea of Marmara area, Haci Osman village.