Ubykh

name, noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A member of a group of people who spoke the Ubykh language, inhabiting an area in what is today Sochi in Russia. historical
  2. 2
    an extinct Caucasian language spoken exclusively in Turkey wordnet
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    The extinct ergative and agglutinative language spoken by the Ubykh people, notable for its large number of distinct consonants and only two vowels.

Etymology

Borrowed from Adyghe Убых (Wubəx).

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.