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    The Laz language or Lazuri (Laz: ლაზური ნენა, romanized: lazuri nena) is a Kartvelian language spoken by the Laz people on the southeastern shore of the...
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    Laz language (which is a member of the Kartvelian language family) but have experienced a rapid language shift to Turkish. Of the 103,900 ethnic Laz in...
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    and after 1989. The Laz language was written mainly between 1927 and 1937, and now again in Turkey using the Latin alphabet. Laz, however, is disappearing...
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    languages, or Zanuri (Georgian: ზანური ენები) or Colchidian, are a branch of the Kartvelian languages constituted by the Mingrelian and Laz languages...
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    Galaktoboureko (redirect from Laz böreği)
    (Greek: γαλακτομπούρεκο, Laz: paponi, Turkish: Laz böreği, Albanian: Qumështor, Arabic: شعيبيات) is a Greek, Turkish, Albanian, Laz, and Syrian dessert of...
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  • Laz-Șoimuș, villages in Avrămești Commune, Harghita County Laz people of the Black Sea area Laz language Laz Alonso (born 1975), American actor Laz Barrera...
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  • The Laz people in Turkey (Turkish: Türkiye Lazları, Laz: ლაზეფე თურქონაშე Lazepe Turkonaşe) are Turkish citizens of Laz descent, an ethnic group native...
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  • Laz is a Kartvelian language. It is sometimes considered as a southern dialect of Zan languages, the northern dialect being the Mingrelian language. Today...
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    15, 2023. Retrieved February 16, 2023. "Laz Alonso Talks About Faith". www.jetmag.com. Laz Alonso at IMDb Laz Alonso discussing NBC's Deception December...
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  • in words which came from other languages such as: ჶილმი (ფილმი-Film) etc. Today the letter is used in the Laz language. Georgian Extended Graphemica (ჶ)...
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  • Kâzım Koyuncu (category Turkish people of Laz descent)
    singer-songwriter and activist of Laz origin. He was born in a village called Yeşilköy, Hopa/Artvin. Koyuncu recorded songs in a number of languages spoken along the northeastern...
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    intelligible only with Laz. Some linguists refer to Mingrelian and Laz as Zan languages. Zan had already split into Mingrelian and Laz variants by early modern...
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  • Laz Institute, is an institute established on May 17, 2013 with the aim of preserving, developing and reproducing the language, culture and history of...
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  • changed Laz city names, prohibited the Laz language, and resettled the Laz people in places determined by the government. The existence of the Laz as an...
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    İskender Chitaşi (category Articles containing Laz-language text)
    and activist. He was known for creating the first newspaper in the Laz language called "Mçita Murutsxi" (Red Star). Aleksiva, İrfan Ç. (2022). Sovyet...
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    Greek in phonology and syntax; it is also known as Laz dialect (not to be confused with the Laz language). Kastamonu is spoken in Kastamonu and its surrounding...
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    Lazica (category Articles containing Laz-language text)
    The Kingdom of Lazica (Georgian: ეგრისი, Egrisi; Laz: ლაზიკა, Laziǩa; ‹See Tfd›Greek: Λαζική, Lazikḗ), sometimes called Lazian Empire, was a state in...
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    Ǩ (category CS1 Finnish-language sources (fi))
    Ǩ (K with a caron) is a letter used in the Laz language and in the Skolt Saami language, where it represents [kʼ] and [c͡ç] respectively. The Unicode codepoints...
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    Lazistan (category Articles containing Laz-language text)
    Lazistan or Lazeti (Laz: ლაზონა, romanized: Lazona; Georgian: ლაზეთი, or ჭანეთი Ç'aneti; Ottoman Turkish: لازستان, romanized: Lazistān) is a historical...
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  • Georgian dialects and other related Kartvelian languages like Svan language, Mingrelian language, and Laz language. German differentiates between Hochdeutsch/Standarddeutsch...
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    The Laz people in Georgia (Georgian: ლაზები საქართველოში, Lazebi Sakartveloshi; Laz: ლაზეფე ოქორთურაშე, Lazepe Okorturaşe) refers to an indigenous Kartvelian-speaking...
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  • education, and music and poetry. Lazs in Germany could be said to have pioneered the Laz language movement. The Lazuri Alboni (Laz Alphabet) based on the Latin...
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    Lazistan Sanjak (category Articles containing Laz-language text)
    Lazistan (Laz: ლაზონა / Lazona, ლაზეთი / Lazeti, ჭანეთი / Ç'aneti; Ottoman Turkish: لازستان, Lazistān) was the Ottoman administrative name for the sanjak...
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    Trabzon (category Articles containing Laz-language text)
    that Ozinis means "flat place" in Laz language and Hurşidabat means "City of the Sun" in Persian/Ottoman language. Pontus: Antik Çağ’dan Günümüze Karadeniz’in...
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  • into Georgian and Zan (Mingrelo-Laz). Distinction between plain [q] and ejective [qʼ] remains only in Svan language. This distinction also existed in...
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  • and its dialects, and Old Georgian, and the Zan languages, which contain the Mingrelian and Laz languages. "Glottolog 4.1 – Georgian-Zan". glottolog.org...
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  • Karadeniz kemençesi, Greek: Ποντιακή λύρα Pontiakí lýra or Pontic lyre, Laz: Çilili (ჭილილი), Armenian: քամանի Qamani, Pontic: lyra) is a Greek and Turkish...
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    Çaylıköy, Borçka (category CS1 Turkish-language sources (tr))
    According to list of villages in Laz language book (2009), name of the village is Cgirazen, which derived from Laz language word "cgirazeni" and means "good...
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    Names of Georgia (category Articles containing Laz-language text)
    საქართველო sakartvelo. In other Kartvelian languages, like Mingrelian, Georgia is referred as საქორთუო sakortuo, in Laz it's ოქორთურა okortura, when in Svan...
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    Georgians (category Articles containing Old Georgian-language text)
    primary language for Georgians of all provenance, including those who speak other Kartvelian languages: Svans, Mingrelians and the Laz. The language known...
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