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Losing languages: Ubykh (opens in new tab)

"What Happens When We Lose a Language?" by Sophia Smith Galer, The Guardian (5/12/26) The Ubykhs are people I've known about for half a century, but now I wish that I knew them better. We are lucky to know anything at all about the Ubykh language. In the 1800s, tens of thousands of people spoke […]

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