Lazuri

E751361

Lazuri is a South Caucasian (Kartvelian) language traditionally spoken by the Laz people along the Black Sea coast of Turkey and Georgia.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Lazuri nena 3
Lazuri canonical 2

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Kartvelian language
language
minority language
alternateName Laz language
Lazca
Lazuri nena
classification Zan branch of Kartvelian languages
closelyRelatedTo Georgian language
Mingrelian language
Svan language
country Georgia
Turkey
ethnicAssociation Laz people
hasCulturalRole marker of Laz ethnic identity
hasDialect Eastern Laz dialects
Western Laz dialects
hasEndonym Lazuri nena
linked to: Lazuri
hasExonym Laz
hasMorphologicalFeature agglutinative morphology
ergative alignment
hasNeighborLanguage Georgian language
Turkish
hasPhonologicalFeature rich consonant inventory
hasSyntacticFeature predominantly SOV word order
influencedBy Georgian language
Turkish
ISO639-3Code lzz
languageFamily Kartvelian languages
South Caucasian languages
notMutuallyIntelligibleWith Georgian language
Turkish
region Black Sea coast of Georgia
Black Sea coast of Turkey
sharesBranchWith Mingrelian language
spokenBy Laz people
spokenInCommunity Laz diaspora communities
status endangered language
subjectOf language revitalization efforts
linguistic documentation projects
traditionalRegion historical region of Lazistan
UNESCOStatus definitely endangered (approximate)
usedIn Laz folk music
Laz storytelling
oral tradition of Laz people
writingSystem Georgian script
Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (5)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Laz hasAlternativeName Lazuri
Laz language hasAlternativeName Lazuri nena
linked to: Lazuri
Laz language autonym Lazuri nena
linked to: Lazuri
Lazuri hasEndonym Lazuri nena
linked to: Lazuri