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- noun historical A member of a group of people who spoke the Ubykh language, inhabiting an area in what is today
Sochi inRussia . - proper noun The
extinct ergative andagglutinative language spoken by the Ubykh people, notable for its large number of distinctconsonants and only twovowels .
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Among the languages that have recently become extinct, it mentions Manx (Isle of Man), which died out in 1974 when Ned Maddrell fell forever silent, Aasax (Tanzania), which disappeared in 1976, Ubykh (Turkey) in 1992 with the demise of Tevfik Esenc, and Eyak (Alaska, United States of America), in 2008 with the death of Marie Smith Jones.
Endangered Languages The Nag 2009
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Not only does it have 92 stories from among those of the peoples mentioned in the title, it has an appendix with specimen texts in Kabardian East Circassian, Bzhedukh West Circassian (Adyghey), Ubykh, Abaza (Tapanta Dialect) ("Northern Abkhaz"), and Bzyb Abkhaz.
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It is an excellent story of the Ubykh, Zaurkan Zolak, who was expelled as a young man from Kafkasia in 1864.
Qwaider Planet 2009
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