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Preferred term

lzzLaz  

Type

  • Language

Definition

  • The Laz language (ლაზური ნენა, lazuri nena; , lazuri ena, or ჭანური ენა, č'anuri ena, also chanuri ena; ) is a South Caucasian language (also known as Kartvelian language) spoken by the Laz people on the Southeast shore of the Black Sea. It is estimated that there are around 30,000 native speakers of Laz in Turkey, in a strip of land extending from Melyat to the Georgian border (officially called Lazistan until 1925), and about 2,000 in Georgia. | c | |- | ძ | z’ | ʒ | |- | წ | ts’, or з’ | ċ | |- | ჭ | ç’ | č’ | |- | ხ | x | x | |- | ჯ | c | ǯ | |- | ჰ | h | h | |- | ჶ | f | f | |}

Entry terms

  • Laz language

ISO 639-3 code

  • lzz

Notation

  • lzz

In other languages

  • Laze

    French

  • Lasische Sprache

    German

  • Lingua laz

    Italian

  • Portuguese

  • Idioma laz

    Spanish

URI

http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/lzz

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