Ubykh is distinguished by the following features, some of which are shared with other Northwest Caucasian languages:
• It is ergative, making no syntactic distinction between the subject of an intransitivesentence

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Ubykh has 84 phonemic consonants, a record high amongst languages without click consonants, but only 3 phonemic vowels. Four of these consonants are found only in loanwords

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Morphosyntax
Ubykh is agglutinative and polysynthetic: /ʃɨkʲʼɐjɨfɜnɜmɨt/ ('we will not be able to go back'), /ɜwqʼɜqʼɜjtʼbɜ/ ('if you had said it'). It is often extremely concise in its word forms.
The boundaries between

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Writing systems for the Ubykh language have been proposed, but there has never been a standard written form.

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In the scheme of Northwest Caucasian evolution, despite its parallels with Adyghe and Abkhaz, Ubykh forms a separate third branch of the family. It has

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Ubykh was spoken in the eastern coast of the Black Sea around Sochi until 1864, when the Ubykhs were driven out of the region by the

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Native vocabulary
Ubykh syllables have a strong tendency to be CV, although VC and CVC also exist. Consonant clustersare

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