Language overview

Ubykh

Ubykh is documented on Dialect Atlas across 1 dialect: Ubykh.

Dialects of Ubykh

UbykhPekhiA Northwest Caucasian language of the Black Sea coast around present-day Sochi, carried to Anatolia in the 1864 deportation. Famous for one of the largest consonant inventories ever recorded — around eighty consonants against two phonemic vowels. Died with its last speaker, Tevfik Esenç, in 1992; extensively documented by Georges Dumézil.

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