11 Facts About Ubykh language

Ubykh language was ergative and polysynthetic, with a high degree of agglutination, with polypersonal verbal agreement and a very large number of distinct consonants but only two phonemically distinct vowels.

Dynamic Ubykh language verbs are split up in two groups: Group I which contain the simple tenses and Group II which contain derived counterpart tenses.

Ubykh language syllables have a strong tendency to be CV, although VC and CVC exist.

The majority of loanwords in Ubykh are derived from either Adyghe or Arabic, with smaller numbers from Persian, Abkhaz, and the South Caucasian languages.

All other NWC languages possess true pharyngeal consonants, but Ubykh is the only language to use pharyngealisation as a feature of secondary articulation.

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Ubykh language died out on 7 October 1992, when its last fluent speaker, Tevfik Esenc, died.

Ubykh language was never written by its speech community, but a few phrases were transcribed by Evliya Celebi in his Seyahatname and a substantial portion of the oral literature, along with some cycles of the Nart saga, was transcribed.

Ubykh language's work Die Pakhy-Sprache was extensive and accurate to the extent allowed by his transcription system and marked the foundation of Ubykh linguistics.

Ubykh language published a collection of Ubykh folktales in the late 1950s, and the language soon attracted the attention of linguists for its small number of phonemic vowels.

Since the 1980s, Ubykh language linguistics has slowed drastically with the most recent treatise being Fenwick's A Grammar of Ubykh language, who was working on a dictionary.

The Ubykh themselves have shown interest in relearning their language.