Surviving Destroyed or barely existing 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.

[2] Historically, they spoke a distinct Ubykh language,[3] which never existed in written form and went extinct in 1992 when Tevfik Esenç, the last speaker, died.

[4] The Ubykh tribe were mentioned in book IV of Procopius' De Bello Gothico (The Gothic War), under the name βροῦχοι (Bruchi), a corruption of the native term tʷaχ.

Faced with the threat of subjugation by the Russian army, the Ubykh, as well as other Muslim peoples of Caucasus, left their homeland en masse beginning on 6 March 1864.

In order to avoid discrimination, the Ubykh elders encouraged their people to assimilate into Turkish culture.