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{{Short description|Extinct Northwest Caucasian language}} {{Multiple issues| {{More citations needed|date=December 2009}} {{Technical|date=September 2022}} }} {{Infobox language | name = Ubykh | nativename = {{lang|uby|tuex̂ıbze}} | pronunciation = {{IPA|/tʷɜxɨbzɜ/}} | states = [[Circassia]] | region = [[Ubykhia]] ([[Sochi]]) | ethnicity = [[Ubykh people|Ubykh]] | extinct = 7 October 1992, with the death of [[Tevfik Esenç]]| | familycolor = Caucasian | fam1 = [[Northwest Caucasian languages|Northwest Caucasian]] | script = Unwritten, but provisional orthographies have been developed | iso3 = uby | glotto = ubyk1235 | glottorefname = Ubykh | map = File:Northwest Caucasian languages map.png | mapcaption = {{legend|#FFC173|Ubykh (extinct)}} | map2 = Lang Status 01-EX.svg | mapcaption2 = {{center|{{small|Ubykh is classified as Extinct according to the [[UNESCO]] ''[[Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger]]''}}}}<ref>{{cite report |title=Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger |publisher=UNESCO |edition=3rd |url=https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000187026 |date=2010 |page=31}}</ref> | notice = IPA }} '''Ubykh'''{{Efn|{{langx|tr|Vubıh}}}} is an extinct [[Northwest Caucasian languages|Northwest Caucasian language]] once spoken by the [[Ubykh people|Ubykh]] people, an ethnic group of [[Circassians|Circassian]] nation who originally inhabited the eastern coast of the [[Black Sea]] before being deported ''en masse'' to the [[Ottoman Empire]] during the [[Circassian genocide]].<ref name=Koerner1998>{{cite book |author-first=E. F. K. |author-last=Koerner |title=First Person Singular III: Autobiographies by North American Scholars in the Language Sciences |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-SYou4fhWUgC&pg=PA33 |date=1 January 1998 |publisher=John Benjamins Publishing |isbn=978-90-272-4576-2 |page=33 }}</ref> The Ubykh language is [[ergative–absolutive language|ergative]] and [[polysynthetic language|polysynthetic]], with a high degree of [[agglutination]], with [[polypersonal agreement|polypersonal]] verbal agreement and a very large number of distinct [[consonant]]s but only two [[phoneme|phonemically distinct]] [[vowel]]s. With around eighty consonants, it has one of the largest inventories of consonants in the world,<ref>{{cite book|author-first=Charles |author-last=King |title=The Ghost of Freedom |date=2008 |pages=15}}</ref> and the largest number for any language without [[click consonant|clicks]]. The name Ubykh is derived from {{lang|ady|Убых}} ({{IPA|/wɨbɨx/}}), from {{lang|ady|Убыхыбзэ}}, its name in the [[Adyghe language]]. It is known in [[linguistics|linguistic]] literature by many names: variants of Ubykh, such as ''Ubikh'', {{lang|fr|Oubykh}} ([[French language|French]]); and its [[German language|German]]ised variant {{lang|de|Päkhy}} (from Ubykh {{IPA|/tʷɜχɨ/}}).
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