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	THE LAZ
		The Laz probably descend from the inhabitants of ancient Colchis of Jason and the Argonauts fame.
		Laz is also used as a generic name to describe inhabitants of the Black Sea area whether they are Laz, Islamisized Pontic Greeks or any other peoples of the area.
		Many of the Laz songs, dance melodies and rhythms are the same as those of the Pontic Greeks but with slightly different ornaments.
	www.scimitarmusic.com /pontos/laz.html (421 words)

	Laz people at AllExperts
		The Laz (Lazi (ááá—á) or Lazepe (ááá—á"á¤á") in Laz, Lazlar in Turkish, Lazi (ááá—á) or Chani (áááá) in Georgian) are an ethnic group who live primarily on the Black Sea coastal regions of Turkey and Georgia.
		The Laz are primarily designated as fisherfolk by the Turkish public (in fact, they are mostly farmers of tea and maize) because anchovies constitute an important part of their diet.
		Today most Laz speakers live in Northeast Turkey, in a strip of land along the shore of the Black Sea: in the Pazar (Atina), Ardeşen (ArtaÅen) and Fındıklı; (Viče) districts of Rize, and in the Arhavi (Arkabi), Hopa (Xopa) and BorÃ§ka districts of Artvin.
	en.allexperts.com /e/l/la/laz_people.htm (504 words)

	Laz language
		The Laz language (Lazuri in Laz, Chanuri in Georgian) is spoken by an ethnic group of the same name on the Southeast shore of the Black Sea.
		Laz is one of the four South Caucasian languages, closely related to Megrelian and somewhat less closely to Georgian.
		Laz speakers seem to be decreasing in number, and the language is in danger of extinction.
	www.xasa.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/l/la/laz_language.html (441 words)

	Laz language (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Laz language (Lazuri in Laz, Chanuri in Georgian) is spoken by an ethnic group of the same name on the Southeastshore of the Black Sea.
		It is estimated that there are between 50,000 and 500,000native speakers of Laz in Turkey (in a strip of land extending from Trabzon to the Georgian border) and about 3,000 in Georgia (in the town of Sarpi).
		Laz is one of the four South Caucasianlanguages, closely related to Megrelian and somewhat lessclosely to Georgian.
	www.therfcc.org /laz-language-223603.html (397 words)

	Georgian_language information. LANGUAGE SCHOOL EXPLORER
		Georgian is the primary language of about 3.9 million people in Georgia itself (83 percent of the population), and of another 500,000 abroad (chiefly in Turkey, Iran, Russia, USA and Europe).
		Georgian is the most pervasive of the South Caucasian languages, a family that also includes Svan and Megrelian (chiefly spoken in Northwest Georgia) and Laz (chiefly spoken along the Black Sea coast of Turkey, from Melyat, Rize to the Georgian frontier).
		Georgian is a post-positional language, meaning that adpositions are placed after (rather than before) the nouns they modify, either as suffixes or as separate words.
	language.school-explorer.com /Georgian (1784 words)

	Laz alphabet, language and prounciation
		Laz is a South Caucasian language with about 33,000 speakers around the Black Sea, mainly in the northeast of Turkey, but also in Georgia.
		Laz is closely related to Mingrelian, and though the two languages are not mutually intelligible, they are considered by some as dialects of a single language known as Zan.
		In Turkey Laz is written with a version of the Latin alphabet, while in Georgia a version of the Georgian alphabet is used.
	www.omniglot.com /writing/laz.htm (119 words)

	Megrelian and Megrelia
		Laz and Chan are synonymous ethnic terms, Chan is the term often used in Georgian histographical sources.
		Laz (Chan) in Georgia are bilingual in Laz and Georgian and those living in Turkey, in Laz and Turkish.
		The literary language used by the Laz speakers is Turkish, leaving Laz for use in the family and local community.
	www.ling.lu.se /projects/Megrelian/Megrelian.html (432 words)

	Georgian
		The Georgian literary language went through three periods in its development: the Old Georgian period (5th-12th centuries), was characterized by religious content; the Medieval Georgian period (12th - 18th century) produced a number of epics; the Modern Georgian period that started in the 18th century was the beginning of the Georgian renaissance.
		Georgian is the literary language for speakers of Svan, Laz, and Mingrelian.
		Georgian is considered to be a Category II language in terms of difficulty for speakers of English.
	www.nvtc.gov /lotw/months/march/Georgian.html (726 words)

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		He used, for the first time among the Laz in Turkey, a string instrument called the "Chonguri" and a wind instrument called "Philili." Birol also helped to develop a percussion instrument, "guni," inspired by the wood used to build beehives, adding to the repertoire of Laz folk instruments.
		This particular Laz Ensemble is the only traditional Laz group in the world coming directly from Laz regions of Turkey and Georgia.
		The Laz are known to be light hearted, romantic yet philosophical people who love to sing, to the extent that ordinary communication may be carried out in song.
	www.intlctr.org /activity/lazmusic/index.htm (904 words)

	The Alekseev Manuscript - Chapter VII: Bronze Age in Eurasia
		HOLLIS equates Nuristani with Dardic 28, with Bashgali 29, and with the Kafiri languages 30 (Bashgali, Dardic, and Nuristani are languages of Afghanistan).
		The Italic languages and dialects according to HOLLIS are related to the Faliscan, Latin, and Venetic languages and have a grammar comparable to Armenian and Etruscan.
		The Tokharian language is synonymous with Yueh Cheh.
	www.drummingnet.com /alekseev/ChapterVII.html (12823 words)

	Lazca Gramer - Laz grammar - Lazuri Grameri / introduction / İsmail A.Bucaklişi - Gôichi Kojima / ( Lazuri.Com )
		The Laz is one of the thousands of languages which are insufficiently described and are in danger of disappearing in one or two generations if nothing is done to preserve them.
		They form a compact language area on the Black Sea coast in two counties (il) of Rize and Artvin; districts (ilçe) of Pazar, Çamlıhemşin, Ardeşen and Fındıklı; in Rize; districts of Arhavi, Hopa and Borçka in Artvin.
		There are also great numbers of ««language islands»» in the Northwest regions of Turkey (Yalova, Karamürsel, Gölcük, İzmit, Sapanca, Düzce, Akçakoca etc.) since the exodus of Laz people after the war between the Ottoman Empire and Russia (1877-1878) from Batumi, Georgia where some Laz villages remain.
	www.lazuri.com /lazuri_grameri_introduction.html (376 words)

	Laz musician banned from performing on Turkish public TV (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Laz musician banned from performing on Turkish public TV ISTANBUL, March 29 (AFP) - 19h36 - A musician from Turkey’s Laz minority group said the country’s public television refused to allow him to perform his songs, claiming that new laws adopting democratic European standards exclude the Laz language.
		The artist protested the decision, pointing out that his compositions in the Laz language had already been broadcast on two occasions in the past on the public channel.
		The Turkish Parliament approved the broadcasting of programs in minority languages in 2002, which was seen as a symbolic gesture toward the EU which has been engaged in opening negotiations about Turkey’s possible accession to the bloc.
	www.kurdmedia.com /news.asp?id=6501 (310 words)

	Language of Georgia (country of Caucasus)
		Georgian (Kartuli) belongs to the Kartvelian language family, which is related to the Caucasian languages—it has no linguistic connection to any other known language groups and continue to fascinate linguist around the world.
		There are three Kartvelian languages: Svan (Svanuri), spoken in the mountains of Svaneti, Mingrelian (Megruli), spoken in Samegrelo, and Laz (Zanur-Chanuri), spoken by Laz people who live in Northeastern Turkey.
		There are some loan words from other language withs which you’ll recognise, but generally the vocabulary is very specific to Georgian.
	www.voyagegeorgie.com /Home_fichiers/Language_Georgia_georgian_caucasian_language.htm (164 words)

	BIROL TOPALOGLU & Laz Music Group / Seveneighths.com / 7/8 Music Productions
		He was born to a Laz family, in the small village Apso, which is on the North Eastern shore of the Black Sea coast of Turkey, near the Georgian border.
		The language Lazuri is related to Mingrelian, a language of the southern Caucasus.
		The Laz love their enchanting mountains, the falcons and sparrow hawks that live in the mountains, the wild rivers that rush through the landscape, and the countless varieties of alpine flowers that dot the highlands.
	www.seveneighths.com /birol_topaloglu.htm (880 words)

	Linguistic Perspectives on Endangered Languages - Abstracts
		Typically, in the language shift situation a dominant language is acquired perfectly, while the minority language is used less and less and is gradually forgotten: its vocabulary decreases, and the speakers have to insert into their speech words and phrases from the dominant language.
		Kusunda language is one of the endangered languages in Nepal.
		Firstly, it may be that the language of the terminal generation of speakers, that is, those speakers whose younger relatives have no command of their ancestral language, is not markedly different from the language of earlier generations.
	www.ling.helsinki.fi /sky/tapahtumat/el/endabs.htm (19286 words)

	Laz - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Laz, Finistère, a commune in the Finistère département, France
		LAZ is an abbreviation for a bus factory in Ukraine, Lvivskyi Avtobusnyi Zavod.
		This is a disambiguation page, a list of pages that otherwise might share the same title.
	www.startsurfing.com /encyclopedia/l/a/z/Laz.html (129 words)

	Turkish Laz minority musician banned from performing on public television
		The Laz musician, Birol Topaloglu, said he had been invited to participate in a musical special on March 18 in Ankara on the national television station TRT-INT.
		The artist protested the decision, pointing out that his compositions in the Laz language had already been broadcast on two occasions in the past on the public channel.
		The Turkish Parliament approved the broadcasting of programs in minority languages in 2002, which was seen as a symbolic gesture toward the EU which has been engaged in opening negotiations about Turkey's possible accession to the bloc.
	www.ekurd.net /mismas/articles/misc2005/3/turkeykurdistan30.htm (345 words)

	Linguist List - Web Resource Listings
		Language Aid: Language Aid International is an NGO that promotes the study of both local and foreign languages.
		Language Miniatures: A site on which 900-word essays are posted once a month in which a topic relating to all aspects of language and linguistics is presented in an easily readable, non-technical way.
		The language partner is someone who speaks the language you study as their native language and is studying your native language.
	linguistlist.org /sp/LangAnalysis.html (8421 words)

	A Traveller's Guide to Turkey's Black Sea Region: BLACK SEA - ENCYCLOPAEDIA
		I have already explained with details why the word Laz was adopted by the people of whole region in the article Laz with 13 pages with the help of historical texts.
		As you know a Japanese linguist who made researches on Laz language had been deported before with a charge of âSeperatismâ even a person from this region as Ä°smail AvcÄ± BucakliÅi used to accompany him.
		To compile other languages to be spoken in the region is more painful and that has to be the subject of a different work.
	www.karalahana.com /karalahana/english/archive/blacksea.html (1150 words)

	Index of languages by writing system
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		Please note: some of these languages, such as Bosnian and Turkish, were once written with the Arabic alphabet, but nowadays are normally written with a different alphabet, such as Latin or Cyrillic.
	www.omniglot.com /writing/languages.htm (261 words)

	Caucasian Language Family
		other language families (Armenian, Azerbaijani, Russian) brought by settlers and invaders over the past three millennia, there are 39 indigenous languages recognized as belonging to a single Caucasian family.
		Even though many of these languages have sizable populations of fluent speakers, the combination of bilingualism in Russian, restrictions imposed by former Soviet government policies, and lack of educational and employment opportunities in these languages may signal the end of the road for many of them.
		Most Caucasian languages have a wealth of consonants including velar, uvular, pharyngeal, and glottal and ejective sounds.
	www.nvtc.gov /lotw/months/march/CaucasianLanguageFamily.html (547 words)

	U.S.ENGLISH Foundation Official Language Research - Turkey: Minority groups
		Circassions, Kurds and Laz have requested and been repeatedly denied either schools teaching in their respective language, or simply their language being an optional subject in areas where they are a numerical majority.
		Similarly, the training of Armenian language teachers is very limited, possibly pending acceptance by the Turkish authorities of the Armenian Department within the Istanbul University for the study of the Armenian language.
		While some progress has been made in language rights - for example, letters that appear in the Kurdish alphabet but not in the Turkish one are no longer banned from print - Turkish authorities still continue to hinder the Kurds from using their language when it may reflect some ethnic pride.
	www.us-english.org /foundation/research/olp/viewResearch.asp?CID=24&TID=4 (2306 words)

	RADIO FREE EUROPE/ RADIO LIBERTY
		Erzurum University professor, Ibrahim Yerebakan, a Laz from Hopa, denies that Laz language is under threat since everyone in the region is bilingual.
		There is no suppression of the language whatsoever and throughout the ages it has been used by people living in the Turkish section as well as the Georgian section.
		Satiroglu notes the Laz continue to build timber homes on stilts in an identical traditional style and that the Laz remain the subject of continuing research by ethnographers and linguists.
	www.rferl.org /features/1998/06/F.RU.980625124850.asp (716 words)

	laz1
		However there are also a little population of Laz people which are "brown" skin and "curle" hair as well.
		The Laz woman is quiet well dominant and equal to man in the Laz society.
		Therefore Laz women should stay behind and do everything for their children and their family.
	www.geocities.com /arzu_barske/laz1.html (381 words)

	Language names in their own scripts
		The table below shows native/local names for languages in their own scripts.
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	www.omniglot.com /language/names.htm (121 words)

	Ethnologue 14 report for language code:LZZ
		The following is the entry for this language as it appeared in the 14th edition (2000).
		Linguists recognize that Laz and Mingrelian are inherently unintelligible with each other's speakers.
		Officially considered to be a single language with Mingrelian, called 'Zan', although linguists recognize that they are not inherently intelligible with each other.
	www.ethnologue.com /show_language.asp?code=LZZ (151 words)

	Het volk van Lazistan
		Laz/Mingrelian is a South Caucasian or Kartvelian language with two varieties, Laz and Mingrelian, close to Georgian.
		LAZ (LAZURI, LAZE, CHAN, CHANZAN, ZAN, CHANURI) [LZZ] 30,000 first language speakers out of 92,000 in the ethnic group in Turkey (1980 estimate); 3,943 monolinguals (1965 census); 1,000 to 1,500 in Germany (1987); 2,000 in Georgia (1982 estimate); 33,000 or more in allcountries.
		LAZ (LAZE, CHAN, CHANZAN, ZAN, CHANURI) [LZZ] 2,000 in Georgia (1982 estimate); 1,000 to 1,500 in Germany; 30,000 in Turkey(1980 estimate); 33,000 or more in all countries.
	www.amarcord.be /georgia/lazuri01.html (608 words)

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