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Laz language - Language features | | Laz language - Language features: Encyclopedia II - Laz language - Language features | |
Laz language - Familial features.
Like many languages of the Caucasus, Laz has a rich consonantal system (in fact, the richest among the South Caucasian family) but only five vowels (a,e,i,o,u). The nouns are inflected with agglutinative suffixes to indicate grammatical function (4 to 7 cases, depending on the dialect) and number (singular or plural), but not by gender.
The Laz verb is inflected with suffixes according to person and number, and also for tense, aspect, mood, and (in some dialects) evidentia ...
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 - Language features
Laz language - Language features
Laz language - Familial features
Like many languages of the Caucasus, Laz has a rich consonantal system (in fact, the richest among the South Caucasian family) but only five vowels (a,e,i,o,u). The nouns are inflected with agglutinative suffixes to indicate grammatical function (4 to 7 cases, depending on the dialect) and number (singular or plural), but not by gender.
The Laz verb is inflected with suffixes according to person and number, and also for tense, aspect, mood, and (in some dialects) evidentiality. Up to 50 verbal prefixes are used to indicate spatial orientation/direction. Person and number suffixes provided for the subject as well as for one or two objects involved in the action, e.g. gimpulam = "I hide it from you".
Laz language - Distinguishing features
Some distinctive features of Laz among its family are:
- Two additional consonants, /f/ and /h/;
- All nouns end with a vowel.
- More extensive verb inflection, using directional prefixes.
- Substantial lexical borrowings from Greek and Turkic languages.
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