Laz language

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The Laz language is a South Caucasian (Kartvelian) minority language spoken mainly along the Black Sea coast of Turkey and Georgia.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Laz language canonical 12

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Kartvelian language
South Caucasian language
language
autonym Lazuri
surface form: Lazuri nena
basicWordOrder SOV
belongsToMacroArea Caucasus
classifiedBy UNESCO Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger
closelyRelatedTo Mingrelian language
countryWithLargestSpeakerPopulation Turkey
endangeredStatus definitely endangered
family Kartvelian language family
glottocode lazz1240
hasAlternativeName Lazuri
Lazuri
surface form: Lazuri nena
hasDialect Atina-Artasheni dialect
Khopa-Chkhala dialect
Sarp dialect
Vitze-Arkabe dialect
Xopa dialect
hasLinguisticFeature polypersonal verb agreement
postpositions
rich case system
hasMorphologicalType agglutinative
hasNumberOfSpeakersEstimate 20000–30000
hasPhonologicalFeature ejective consonants
rich consonant inventory
hasStandardizationStatus partially standardized
historicalRegion Lazistan
ISO639-3Code lzz
languageFamily Kartvelian
minorityLanguageIn Georgia
Turkey
notMutuallyIntelligibleWith Georgian language
Mingrelian language (fully)
Svan language
region Eastern Black Sea region
northeastern Turkey
southwestern Georgia
secondLargestSpeakerCountry Georgia
spokenAlong Black Sea coast
spokenBy Laz people
spokenIn Georgia
Turkey
subfamily Zan branch
usedInMedia local radio programs
music and songs
writingSystem Georgian script
Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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Referenced by (12)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Mkhedruli usedForWriting Laz language
Lazistan historicalLanguage Laz language
Svan language closelyRelatedTo Laz language
Lazica language Laz language
Zan hasSubgroup Laz language
Colchidian languages hasMember Laz language
Lushnu nin relatedToLanguage Laz language