Ubykh
extinct Northwest Caucasian language once spoken by the Ubykh people
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Summary
Ubykh is a language[1]. Ubykh ranks in the top 1% of language entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,786 views/month).[2]
Key Facts
- Country: Russian Empire[3], Turkey[4]
- Instance of: extinct language[5], dead language[6]
- Subclass of: Northwest Caucasian[7]
- Writing system: Cyrillic script[8], Latin script[9], Latin alphabet[10]
- Coordinate location: 43.6666666667, 39.6666666667[11]
- Topic's main category: Category:Ubykh language[12]
- UNESCO language status: 6 extinct[13], dead language[14]
- Indigenous to: Ubykh people[15], Ubykhia[16], Istanbul Province[17], Caucasian Riviera[18], Balıkesir[19]
- Exact match: http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/UBY[20]
- Ethnologue language status: 10 Extinct[21]
- Linguistic typology: agglutinative language[22], ergative–absolutive language[23]
- Extinction date: 1992[24]
- Terminal speaker: Tevfik Esenç[25]
Why It Matters
Ubykh has Wikipedia articles in 24 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[26] Ubykh is known by 47 alternative names across languages and contexts.[27]