Vowels are defined in two ways. Phonetically, a vowel is a speech sound made when the vocal chords vibrate and there is little or no obstruction anywhere
In October 1992 a man in a small village in Turkey, closed his eyes to life. The history, tales and native language of a thousand years old people were also gone with him. A bird flew away, one of the windows of the College de France in Paris was broken for no reason. In Oslo, the sea fluctuated differently with this death. That man was Tevfik Esenç. He was the last one to speak Ubykh language that belongs to Ubykh people who were exiled from their homeland after losing the Caucasian-Russian war that lasted for hundreds of years.