Statue of a Laz man and woman in Arhavi (Ark'abi), Turkey
Regions with significant populations
Turkey
103,900 (Ethnologue, 2019)[1]
Georgia
1,000 (2007)[1]
Germany
1,000 (2007)[1]
Russia
160 (2010)[2]
Languages
Laz, Georgian, Turkish
Religion
In Turkey: majority Sunni Islam[3] In Georgia: majority Georgian Orthodox[4]
Related ethnic groups
Georgians (especially Mingrelians), Pontic Greeks
Laz people
Place of distribution
Lazistan
Georgia
Turkey
Germany
Religion
Sunni Islam
Christianity
Eparchy of Batumi and Lazeti
The Seven Brothers of Lazia
Laz Martyrs
Churches: Jibistasi, Noghedi, Pironity
Culture
Laz language
Laz grammar
Barchkhali
Dance
Cuisine
Agani Murutsxi (Newspaper)
History
Colchian culture
ancient Colchian tribes
Colchis
Satrapy of Persia
Greek colonisation
Pontus
Roman rule
Kingdom of Lazica
Christianization
Byzantine rule
Trebizond Empire
Kingdom of Imereti
Ottoman rule
Hellenization
Laz rebellion (1832–1834)
Related peoples
Mingrelians
Svans
other groups of Georgians
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The Laz people, or Lazi (Laz: ლაზიLazi; 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 experienced a rapid language shift to Turkish.
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.[1]
^ abcd"Laz". Ethnologue. Retrieved 4 July 2022.
^Национальный состав населения [2010 Census: Ethnic composition of the population] (in Russian). Russian Federal State Statistics Service. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 September 2018. Retrieved 31 January 2015.
^Roger Rosen, Jeffrey Jay Foxx, The Georgian Republic, Passport Books (September 1991)
^"ЛАЗЫ СССР И ГРУЗИИ: ПЕРИПЕТИИ ИСТОРИЧЕСКИХ СУДЕБ - Кавказ: новости, история,традиции". www.kavkazoved.info.
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