Ubykh (ТВaҳəбзa/Twaxəbza)
Ubykh is a North West Caucasian language once spoken on the eastern coast of the Black Sea around Sochi in the Russian Federation, and also in Turkey. The Ubykhs were driven out of the Sochi region by the Russians in 1864. Most of them eventually settled in Turkey, where they founded the villages of Hacı Osman, Kırkpınar, Masukiye and Hacı Yakup.
During subsequent years the Ubykhs gradually adopted Turkish and Circassian as their everyday languages. The last fluent speaker of Ubykh (Tevfik Esenç) died on 7th October 1992 at the age of 88. Before his death linguists, such as Georges Dumézil, Hans Vogt and George Hewitt, were able to collect numerous audio recordings of spoken Ubykh and made copious notes about the language.
There has never been a standard written form of Ubykh, though there was a rich oral literature, some of which has been transcribed using a mixture of the IPA and the Latin alphabet.
The Ubykh people themselves have shown interest in relearning their language, which include more consonants then just about any other language and very few vowels. To that end, an American, Adam Dean, has created modifications of the Latin and Cyrillic alphabets specifically for writing Ubykh. Adam does not work for SIL or any linguistically related agency, but he has nonetheless produced these alphabets with the hope that they will be adopted for the language.
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