The Ubijos are a people who spoke the Ubijé language of the group of Caucasian Northwest languages, until other local languages displaced it, dying its last known speaker in 1992.
The Ubijos inhabited the area just northwest of Abkhazia in the Caucasus. Probably they were one of the populations that inhabited the ancient nation of Colquida. Apart from mythology, the probable ancestors of the ubijos were mentioned in the book IV of Procopio de Cesarea De Bello Gótico (The Gothic War), with the name of βροῦχοι (Brouchoi), a corruption of the original term tʷaχ. The Ubijos were a semi-nomadic people on horseback, and the Ubijé language contains a rich different vocabulary related to horses and tools. Some Ubijos practiced the divinatory techniques of favomancy and espatulomancy.
However, the ubijos were more important in modern times. About 1864, during the reign of Tsar Alexander II, the Russian conquest of the northwest Caucasus was basically over. The Adigué and the Abkhaz were decimated, and the Abbasians were partially expelled from the Caucasus. Facing the threat of subjugation by the Russian army, the Ubijos, as well as other Muslim peoples of the Caucasus, began abandoning their lands en masse on March 6, 1864. By May 21, all of the Ubijos departed of the Caucasus. They settled in various towns in western Turkey, in the vicinity of the municipality of Manyas, in the Sea of Marmara.
To avoid discrimination, ubijos elders encouraged their people to assimilate into Turkish culture. Having abandoned their traditional nomadic culture, they became a village of farmers. Ubijé was quickly displaced by the Turk and the Circassian, being the last speaker of Ubijé Tevfik Esenç, who died in 1992.
Today, the Ubijé diaspora spread through Turkey, and to a lesser extent in Jordan. The ubiqué nation itself ceased to exist, although those with ubiquitous ancestors are proud to call themselves ubijos, and a couple of villages can still be found in Turkey where the vast majority of the population are descendants of the ubijos.
The ubiquitous society was patrilineal, and many descendants of the ubijos can trace their kinship in the last five, six or even seven generations. However, as in other cultures of the northwest Caucasus, women were especially venerated, and the Ubijé language retains a special prefix for the second person used exclusively for women (χa -).
the ubije is the language could be said to be the most complex to learn since it is made up of more consonants than vowels. according to the World encyclopedia, these languages use consonants that are articulated in almost every point of the mouth and throat of the ubije whose last speaker died in 1992, it was said that he had at least 80 consonants and maybe only 2 vowels. a legend tells that a certain Turkish sultan sent a scholar to the Caucasus to learn ubije. When he returned, in order to explain why he had not been able to learn that language, the student emptied on the marble floor, in front of the sultan, a bag full of small stones, saying that he would listen to these sounds, as the place is incomprehensible to the ears of a foreigner.
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