Ubykh

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A member of a group of people who spoke the Ubykh language, inhabiting an area in what is today Sochi in Russia.
name
  1. The extinct ergative and agglutinative language spoken by the Ubykh people, notable for its large number of distinct consonants and only two vowels.

Word forms

Ubykh Ubykhs

Etymology

Borrowed from West Circassian Убых (Wubəx).

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