Uby

Also Known As: Pekhi,Oubykh,Ubyx Description: Ubykh or Ubyx is a language of the Northwestern Caucasian group, spoken by the Ubykh people up until the early 1990s. The word is derived from /wəbəx/, its name in the Abdzakh Adyghe (Circassian) language. It is known in linguistic literature by many names: variants of Ubykh, such as Ubikh, Ubıh (Turkish) and Oubykh (French); and Pekhi (from Ubykh /tʷaχə/) and its Germanised variant Päkhy. Ubykh is distinguished by the following features, some of which are shared with other Northwest Caucasian languages: See Ubykh phonology for information on the phonetics of Ubykh. Ubykh is agglutinative and polysynthetic: /ʃəkʲʼaajəfanamət/ we shall not be able to go back, /awqʼaqʼajtʼba/ if you had said it. Ubykh is often extremely concise in its word forms. The boundaries between nouns and verbs in Ubykh is somewhat blurred. Any noun can be used as the root of a stative verb (/məzə/ child, /səməzəjtʼ/ I was a child), and many verb roots can become nouns simply by the use of noun affixes (/qʼa/ to say, /səqʼa/ my speech, what I say). The noun system in Ubykh is quite simple. Ubykh has three noun cases (the oblique-ergative case may be two homophonous cases with differing function, thus..... full article at Wikipedia Location of Ubykh Language Speakers http://llmap.org/languages/uby/static_map.png?width=400&height=300&kilroywashere=.png Rosetta Document Collection Bibliography: 1 (download) (browse) Phonology: 1 (download) (browse) Table Of Contents: 1 (download) (browse) Vernacular Text: 1 (download) (browse)

Overview Main Country: Turkey Spoken In: Regions: Europe ISO 639-3 Code: uby Classification Taxonomy All Languages   North Caucasian Group     Northwest North Caucasian Group       Ubyx Group         Ubykh Language