enquiry re Ubykh

[Nicholas Ostler]

Dear Friends

I have just received this indirectly. Can anyone help this keen young
linguist by putting him in touch with a scholar of Ubykh, or a
relevant Caucasianist?

I'll send any answers to him, but given the indirect source, I don't
think I should put his own details on the list.

Yours ever

Nicholas Ostler

>----- Original Message -----
>Sent: Monday, January 05, 2004 9:05 PM
>
>I'm a Circassian boy from Turkey. I attend Istanbul University,
>American Culture & Literature. I study on North Caucasus Languages (
>Western Circassian, Eastern Circassian (Kabardian), Abaza, Abkhazian
>and Ubykh). I want to be a linguist on NC languages.
>Now I study on "The Comparative Dictionary of North Caucasus
>Languages". Since I am native speaker of Kabardian, and a fluent
>speaker of Adige, I do these sections on myself. As to Abkhazian and
>Abaza, my friends who r also their languages' native speakers help
>me. But Ubykh is a real problem. U know it is dead for about 10
>years,æ we have just voice records, dictionaries (by Hans Vogt and
>G. Dumezil.). Can u help us to revive Ubykh. And Can u guide us?
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