Editing Ubykh language (section)

===Notable characteristics===
Ubykh had been cited in the ''Guinness Book of Records'' (1996 ed.) as the language with the most consonant [[phoneme]]s, but since 2017 the [[Taa language|!Xóõ language]] (a member of the Tuu languages) has been considered by the book to have broken that record, with 130 consonants.<ref>{{Cite news|title=Language with most consonants|url=https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/67421-language-with-most-consonants|access-date=2021-07-29|website=Guinness World Records|language=en-GB}}</ref> Ubykh has 20 [[uvular consonant|uvular]] and 29 pure [[fricative]] phonemes, more than any other known language.