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Laz

Also known as Laz language, lzz, Laze, Chanuri

South Caucasian language in the Kartvelian family, close to Mingrelian, spoken by the Laz people on the southeastern shore of the Black Sea

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Laz is a language spoken by the Laz people along the southeastern coast of the Black Sea, and it belongs to the same language family as Georgian. It matters because it represents a distinct cultural and linguistic heritage of an ethnic group in the South Caucasus region, though like many minority languages, it faces challenges in preservation.

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number of speakers, writers, or signers: 250000
native label: Lazuri
Wikimedia language code: lzz
exact match: publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/LZZ
short name: лазаг

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Soner speaking Laz

The Laz or Lazuri language (Laz: ლაზური ნენა, romanized: lazuri nena) is a Kartvelian language spoken by the Laz people on the southeastern shore of the Black Sea. In 2007, it was estimated that there were around 20,000 native speakers in Turkey, in a strip of land extending from Melyat to the Georgian border (officially called Lazistan until 1925), and around 1,000 native speakers around Adjara in Georgia. There are also around 1,000 native speakers of Laz in Germany.