1. Ubykh - Noun
2. Ubykh - Proper noun
Ubykh (plural Ubykhs or Ubykh)
(historical) A member of a group of people who spoke the Ubykh language, inhabiting an area in what is today Sochi in Russia.
Ubykh
English Wikipedia has an article on:UbykhWikipedia
The extinct ergative and agglutinative language spoken by the Ubykh people, notable for its large number of distinct consonants and only two vowels.
Synonym: Ubyx
Ubykh exhibits verbal agreement for the subject, direct object, indirect object, benefaction and ablative objects (a. Source: Internet
Consonants are scheduled by their features in a number of IPA charts: Examples The recently extinct Ubykh language had only 2 or 3 vowels but 84 consonants; Georges Dumézil and Tevfik Esenç, 1975, Le verbe oubykh: études descriptives et comparatives. Source: Internet
Xóõ, on the other hand, has somewhere around 77, and Ubykh 81. The English language uses a rather large set of 13 to 21 vowel phonemes, including diphthongs, although its 22 to 26 consonants are close to average. Source: Internet