Hacıosman ( ; ) is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of

Manyas Manyas is a municipality and Districts of Turkey, district of Balıkesir Province, Turkey. Its area is 634 km2, and its population is 18,066 (2022). The mayor is Tancan Barçın (Republican People's Party, CHP). The important bird area Lake Ku ...

Balıkesir Province Balıkesir Province () is a Provinces of Turkey, province and Metropolitan municipalities in Turkey, metropolitan municipality in northwestern Turkey with coastlines on both the Sea of Marmara and the Aegean Sea, Aegean. Its area is 14,583 km ...

in Turkey. Its population is 81 (2022). Until 1992, it was one of the few villages in the world where the inhabitants spoke the

Ubykh language Ubykh is an extinct Northwest Caucasian language once spoken by the Ubykh people, an ethnic group of Circassian nation who originally inhabited the eastern coast of the Black Sea before being deported ''en masse'' to the Ottoman Empire during ...

in their daily lives. The last speaker of Ubykh,

Tevfik Esenç Tevfik Esenç (; 1904 – 7 October 1992) was a Turkish citizen of Ubykh origin, known for being the last speaker of the Ubykh language. He was fluent in Ubykh, Adyghe and Turkish. After his death in 1992, the Ubykh language went extinct desp ...

, was born, and died, in this village. Other villages where Ubykh was spoken included

Kırkpınar Kırkpınar (Turkish language, Turkish for "forty springs") is a Turkey, Turkish oil wrestling (yağlı güreş) tournament where pehlivans (wrestlers) compete for three days. It is held annually, usually in late June, near Edirne, Turkey sinc ...

and Hacıyakup.

References

Neighbourhoods in Manyas District {{Balıkesir-geo-stub Circassian communities