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Laz language - Geographical distribution | | Laz language - Geographical distribution: Encyclopedia II - Laz language - Geographical distribution | | The ancient kingdom of Colchis was located in the same region the Laz speakers are found in today, and its inhabitants probably spoke an ancestral version of the language. Colchis was the setting for the famous Greek legend of Jason and the Argonauts.
Today most Laz speakers live in Northeast Turkey, in a strip of lang along the shore of the Black Sea: in the Pazar (Atina), Ardeşen and Fındıklı (Viče) districts of Rize, and in the Arhavi, Hopa and Borçka districts of Artvin (where many immigrants settled since the Russian-Turkis ...
See also:Laz language, Laz language - Linguistic classification, Laz language - Dialects, Laz language - Geographical distribution, Laz language - Social and cultural status, Laz language - Language features, Laz language - Familial features, Laz language - Distinguishing features | | | Laz language, Laz language - Dialects, Laz language - Distinguishing features, Laz language - Familial features, Laz language - Geographical distribution, Laz language - Language features, Laz language - Linguistic classification, Laz language - Social and cultural status, Georgian language, Megrelian language, Svan language, Languages of the Caucasus | | |
| | | Laz language: Encyclopedia II - Laz language - Geographical distribution
Laz language - Geographical distribution
The ancient kingdom of Colchis was located in the same region the Laz speakers are found in today, and its inhabitants probably spoke an ancestral version of the language. Colchis was the setting for the famous Greek legend of Jason and the Argonauts.
Today most Laz speakers live in Northeast Turkey, in a strip of lang along the shore of the Black Sea: in the Pazar (Atina), Ardeşen and Fındıklı (Viče) districts of Rize, and in the Arhavi, Hopa and Borçka districts of Artvin (where many immigrants settled since the Russian-Turkish war (1877/1878), in Karamürsel, in Akçakoca, Sakarya, Kocaeli, and now also inIstanbul and Ankara. Only a few Laz live in Georgia, chiefly in Ajaria (est. 30,000 speakers, about 2000 of them in Sarpi).
Other related archives1925, 1997, 1st millennium BC, Ajaria, Akçakoca, Ankara, Artvin, Black Sea, Colchis, Georgia, Georgian, Georgian language, Greek legend, Istanbul, Jason and the Argonauts, Karamürsel, Kocaeli, Languages of the Caucasus, Lazistan, Megrelian, Megrelian language, Rize, Sakarya, Sarpi, South Caucasian languages, Svan language, Turkey, Turkic languages, Turkish, agglutinative, cases, grammatical function, languages of the Caucasus, nouns
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