ubykh
IPA: ubɪk
Root Word: Ubykh
noun
- (historical) A member of a group of people who spoke the Ubykh language, inhabiting an area in what is today Sochi in Russia.
- The extinct ergative and agglutinative language spoken by the Ubykh people, notable for its large number of distinct consonants and only two vowels.
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Examples of "ubykh" in Sentences
- The Ubykh language, now extinct, was once spoken in the Caucasus region of Russia
- Linguists have studied Ubykh to understand its complex phonetic system
- The last native speaker of Ubykh passed away in the early 1990s, marking the end of an era
- Efforts are being made to document Ubykh cultural heritage through oral histories
- The unique sounds of Ubykh include an impressive array of consonants not found in most languages
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