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How to pronounce ubykh in English?

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Type of caucasian, caucasian language

Examples of ubykh

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Ubykh syllables have a strong tendency to be CV, although VC and CVC also exist.
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Ubykh distinguishes three types of postalveolar consonants, apical, laminal, and laminal closed.
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Ubykh has very few basic phonemic vowels.
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Ubykh has ten different uvular plosives.
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Ubykh has ten different uvular fricatives.
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Ubykh has 84 phonemic consonants, a record high amongst languages without click consonants, but only 2 phonemic vowels.
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Ubykh is often extremely concise in its word forms.
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Ubykh may be related to Hattic, a language spoken in Anatolia before 2000 BC and written in a cuneiform script.
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Ubykh also possesses groups of pharyngealised consonants otherwise found in the Northwest Caucasian family only in some dialects of Abkhaz and Abaza.
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  • An extinct Caucasian language spoken exclusively in Turkey
  • (Ubykhs) The Ubykh are a group who spoke the Northwest Caucasian Ubykh language, until other local languages displaced it and its last speaker finally died in 1992.