Sometimes an obituary for a man also means an obituary for a language – especially if his death breaks the last link to a living tongue. The passing of Tevfik Esenc was also the effective end of the ...

Ubykh people who lived on the eastern coast of the Black sea spoke the language named Ubykh as well, and it belonged to the family of Northwest Caucasian languages. They were Muslims who needed to ...

Feb. 9 -- In 1974, Ned Madrell died on the Isle of Man, and with him died the Manx language, lost to the world — forever. A similar end awaited the Ubykh language. When farmer Tefvik Esemic died in ...

The Ubykh language became extinct in 1992 with the death of its last speaker, Tevfik Esenç. Ubykhia was in the Caucasus Mountains on the northern shores of the Black Sea. Many think it was part of the ...

The linguist Ole Stig Andersen was keen to seek out the remaining traces of a West Caucasian language called Ubykh. Having heard that there was one remaining speaker he set out to find the man and ...

“Yə tχəλ a ċəċa a.Ša ɣa-la.na.w.mə.t za bza a.wádya-ba, za λamsá dəwa.wt. Dunay ɣa t°axə´-bza ɣa a.ċʼanə za tə´t Tevfik Esenç 08.10.1992 gə´ dəwa.qʼa. Wana´ ɣafa t°axə´-bza a.bayna.wə.qʼa. A ċəċa.n ...