Ubykh people
Tamga of the Berzeg clan, one of the most influential clans of Ubykhia. | |
| Total population | |
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| 20,000 | |
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| Turkey | |
| Languages | |
| Ubykh (historically), Turkish, Circassian languages | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Circassian, Abkhaz, Abaza |
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The Ubykh (Ubykh: Tuex̂ı /tʷɜxɨ/; Adyghe: Убых, romanized: Ubyx; Russian: Убыхи; Turkish: Ubıhlar / Vubıhlar) are an ethnic group of the Circassian nation, represented by one of the twelve stars on the green-and-gold Circassian flag. Along with the Circassian tribes of Natukhai and Shapsug, the Ubykh formed the Circassian Assembly (Adyghe: Адыгэ Хасэ) in 1860. Historically, they spoke a distinct Ubykh language, which never existed in written form and went extinct in 1992 when Tevfik Esenç, the last speaker, died.