Ubykh language
- noun
- After the death of its last native speaker in 1992, the Ubykh language became extinct.
Examples
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Linguists have studied the Ubykh language for its unusually large number of consonants.
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Few written records of the Ubykh language exist today, making its preservation challenging.
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The Ubykh language is now considered extinct.
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Few people can speak the Ubykh language fluently.
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After the death of its last native speaker in 1992, the Ubykh language became extinct.
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Linguists have studied the Ubykh language for its unusually large number of consonants.
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Few written records of the Ubykh language exist today, making its preservation challenging.
Synonyms
A language once spoken in Turkey by the Ubykh people that is no longer spoken
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is a simple composition of a proper name + 'language' meaning 'the language of the Ubykh (people)'; knowing 'Ubykh' and 'language' lets a learner infer this referential meaning. This naming pattern (X language = the language spoken by X) is cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will understand it.
Etymology
Ubykh language comes from the Ubykh people who once spoke it near the Black Sea and later in Turkey. When the last native speaker died in 1992, no one was left to speak it as a first language, so the language became 'extinct'.
