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.
Examples of "ubykh" in Sentences
- The noun system in Ubykh is quite simple.
- Ubykh has very few basic phonemic vowels.
- It was the first major descriptive work written of Ubykh.
- See Ubykh phonology for information on the phonetics of Ubykh.
- I've just noticed that you have made use of the Ubykh userboxes.
- He was the last person able to speak the language they called Ubykh.
- Ubykhs supplanted the Sadz Abkhazians from the area in the 17th century.