Tevfik at age 82

Tevfik Esenç (1904 - October 7, 1992) was a Turkish farmer and the last known speaker of the Ubykh language. 1904 is a leap year starting on a Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... October 7 is the 280th day of the year (281st in leap years). ... 1992 is a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Farming, ploughing rice paddy, in Indonesia Agriculture is the process of producing food, feed, fiber and other desired products by cultivation of certain plants and the raising of domesticated animals (livestock). ... Ubykh is a language of the Northwestern Caucasian group, spoken by the Ubykh people up until the early 1990s. ...

Esenç was raised by his Ubykh-speaking grandparents for a time in the village of Haci Osman köyü in Turkey, and he served a term as the muhtar (mayor) of that village, before receiving a post in the civil service of Istanbul. There, he was able to do a great deal of work with the French linguist Georges Dumézil to help record his language. Haci Osman köyü is a small village in the vilayet Balikesir, in the region of Manyas in Turkey. ... A civil servant or public servant is a civilian career public-sector employee working for a government department or agency. ... This article is about the city. ... Broadly conceived, linguistics is the study of human language, and a linguist is someone who engages in this study. ... Georges Dumézil ( March 4, 1898 - October 11, 1986) was a French comparative philologist best known for his analysis of sovereignty and power in Indo-European religion and society. ...

Blessed with an excellent memory, and understanding quickly the goals of Dumézil and the other linguists who came to visit him, he was the primary source of not only the Ubykh language, but also of the mythology, culture and customs of the Ubykh people. He spoke not only Ubykh but Turkish and the Hakuchi dialect of Adyghe, allowing some comparative work to be done between the two languages. He was a purist, and his idiolect of Ubykh is considered by some as the closest thing to a standard "literary" Ubykh language that existed. This article is about a system of myths. ... The word culture comes from the Latin root colere (to inhabit, to cultivate, or to honor). ... The Ubykh people are a group of Northwest Caucasian language speakers, who up until 1992 spoke the Ubykh language. ... The Adyghe or Adygei are a Circassian people of the northwest Caucasus region, principally inhabiting Russian Federation). ... An idiolect (sometimes misspelled ideolect) is a variety of a language unique to an individual. ...

Esenç died in 1992 at the age of 88. The inscription that he wanted on his gravestone read as follows: 1992 is a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

This is the grave of Tevfik Esenç. He was the last person able to speak the language they called Ubykh.