Ubykh language

Spoken in

  • Northwest Caucasian Languages Ubychisch

Uby

The Ubychische (self- designation: t ° axə bze ​​), which is part of the Northwest Caucasian languages ​​, is considered extinct. The last fully competent speakers of this language, Tevfik Esenç died in 1992 in Turkey.

History

Ubychisch was originally spoken on the northeastern coast of the Black Sea, for example, near the present-day Sochi. The Ubycher left this area after the Russian conquest in 1864 and immigrated to Turkey from.

Swell

  • Helmut Glück ( Hrsg.): Metzler Lexikon Sprache. Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 1993, ISBN 3-476-00937-8.
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