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Laz people
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Vinony's link graph records 809 inbound references to Laz people, and connects out to Colchis, Georgians and İzmit.
It sits within the topics Ancient peoples of Georgia (country), Ethnic groups divided by international borders and Ethnic groups in Georgia (country).
Vinony links it to 51 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Turkey
- 103,900 (Ethnologue, 2019)
- Georgia
- 1,000 (2007)
- Germany
- 1,000 (2007)
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- ethnic group
- Part of
- Kartvelian
- Native language
- Georgian
- Religion
- Eastern Orthodoxy
- Country
- Georgia (country)
- Image
- Lazs in 1900s.jpg
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- described by source
- Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
- Commons category
- Laz people
- topic's main category
- Category:Laz people
- native label
- ლაზები
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Encyclopedic overview
The Laz people, or Lazi (Laz: ლაზი Lazi; Georgian: ლაზი, lazi; or ჭანი, ch'ani; Turkish: Laz), are a Kartvelian ethnic group native to the South Caucasus, who mainly live in Black Sea coastal regions of Turkey and Georgia. They traditionally speak the Laz language (which is a member of the Kartvelian language family) but have been subjected to a process of deliberate Turkification under the lengthy Turkish rule.
Of the 103,900 ethnic Laz in Turkey, only around 20,000 speak Laz and the language is classified as threatened (6b) in Turkey and shifting (7) in Georgia on the Expanded Graded Intergenerational Disruption Scale.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Laz people” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.