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Ubykh or Ubyx is an extinct Northwest Caucasian language once spoken by the Ubykh people (who originally lived along the eastern coast of the Black Sea before migrating en masse to Turkey in the 1860s). The language’s last native speaker Tevfik Esenç died in 1992.The Ubykh language is ergative and agglutinative with polypersonal verbal agreement and a very large number of distinct consonants but only two phonemically distinct vowels.
