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Ubykh

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Noun1.Ubykh - an extinct Caucasian language spoken exclusively in TurkeyUbykh - an extinct Caucasian language spoken exclusively in Turkey
Caucasian language, Caucasian - a number of languages spoken in the Caucasus that are unrelated to languages spoken elsewhere
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The world has lost Manx in the Isle of Man, Ubykh in Turkey and last year Alaska's last native speaker of Eyak, Marie Smith Jones, died, taking the aboriginal language with her.
2,500 languages threatened with extinction: UNESCO by AFP / AFP Global Edition
Talking about that momentous landing on Plymouth Rock, Bingham says: "If those Mayflower settlers had chanced to speak Ubykh (a Caucasian language with 81 consonants and three vowels) or Rotokas (a Papua New Guinea language with just six consonants and three vowels), the world would most likely be speaking those fine languages today.
My word! What a complex language by Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
When Turkish farmer Tefvic Esenc died in 1992, so did Ubykh, a language from the Caucasus region that had the highest number of consonants ever recorded.
Our planet's languages are dying. (Worldview) by Sampat, Payal / USA Today (Magazine)
 
 
 
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