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Laz language, the Glossary

The Laz language or Lazuri is a Kartvelian language spoken by the Laz people on the southeastern shore of the Black Sea.^[1]

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Georgian-Zan languages
Kartvelian languages
Languages of Georgia (country)
Laz people

Abasgoi

The Abasgoi or Abasgians (Αβασγοί, Abasgoi, and Ἁβασκοί, Abaskoi; Abasci, Abasgi; აბაზგები, Abazgebi; compare Abkhaz Абазаа "the Abaza people") were one of the ancient tribes inhabiting western region of Abkhazia, who originally inhabited lands north of Apsilae, corresponding to today's Ochamchira District.

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Adjara

Adjara (აჭარა Ach’ara) or Achara, officially known as the Autonomous Republic of Adjara (აჭარის ავტონომიური რესპუბლიკა Ach’aris Avt’onomiuri Resp’ublik’a), is a political-administrative region of Georgia.

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Affricate

An affricate is a consonant that begins as a stop and releases as a fricative, generally with the same place of articulation (most often coronal).

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Agglutination

In linguistics, agglutination is a morphological process in which words are formed by stringing together morphemes, each of which corresponds to a single syntactic feature.

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Alveolar consonant

Alveolar (UK also) consonants are articulated with the tongue against or close to the superior alveolar ridge, which is called that because it contains the alveoli (the sockets) of the upper teeth.

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Anatolia

Anatolia (Anadolu), also known as Asia Minor, is a large peninsula or a region in Turkey, constituting most of its contemporary territory.

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Approximant

Approximants are speech sounds that involve the articulators approaching each other but not narrowly enough nor with enough articulatory precision to create turbulent airflow.

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Apsilae

The Apsilae or Apsili were an ancient tribe inhabiting the territory of Apsilia, in modern Abkhazia.

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Arrian

Arrian of Nicomedia (Greek: Ἀρριανός Arrianos; Lucius Flavius Arrianus) was a Greek historian, public servant, military commander, and philosopher of the Roman period.

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Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger

The UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger was an online publication containing a comprehensive list of the world's endangered languages.

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Back vowel

A back vowel is any in a class of vowel sound used in spoken languages.

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Black Sea

The Black Sea is a marginal mediterranean sea lying between Europe and Asia, east of the Balkans, south of the East European Plain, west of the Caucasus, and north of Anatolia.

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Close vowel

A close vowel, also known as a high vowel (in U.S. terminology), is any in a class of vowel sounds used in many spoken languages.

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Colchis

In classical antiquity and Greco-Roman geography, Colchis was an exonym for the Georgian polity of Egrisi (ეგრისი) located on the eastern coast of the Black Sea, centered in present-day western Georgia.

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Ejective consonant

In phonetics, ejective consonants are usually voiceless consonants that are pronounced with a glottalic egressive airstream.

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Encyclopaedia of Islam

The Encyclopaedia of Islam (EI) is a reference work that facilitates the academic study of Islam.

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Evidentiality

In linguistics, evidentiality is, broadly, the indication of the nature of evidence for a given statement; that is, whether evidence exists for the statement and if so, what kind.

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Evliya Çelebi

Dervish Mehmed Zillî (25 March 1611 – 1682), known as Evliya Çelebi (اوليا چلبى), was an Ottoman explorer who travelled through the territory of the Ottoman Empire and neighboring lands during the empire's cultural zenith.

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Fricative

A fricative is a consonant produced by forcing air through a narrow channel made by placing two articulators close together.

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Front vowel

A front vowel is a class of vowel sounds used in some spoken languages, its defining characteristic being that the highest point of the tongue is positioned as far forward as possible in the mouth without creating a constriction that would otherwise make it a consonant.

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GeoCities

GeoCities, later Yahoo! GeoCities, was a web hosting service that allowed users to create and publish websites for free and to browse user-created websites by their theme or interest, active from 1994 to 2009.

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Georg Rosen (1821–1891)

Georg Friedrich Wilhelm Rosen (Born Ballhorn; 24 September 1820 in Detmold, Principality of Lippe – 29 October 1891 in Detmold) was a German (Lippe/Prussian) orientalist and diplomat.

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Georgia (country)

Georgia is a transcontinental country in Eastern Europe and West Asia.

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Georgian language

Georgian (ქართული ენა) is the most widely spoken Kartvelian language; it serves as the literary language or lingua franca for speakers of related languages. Laz language and Georgian language are Agglutinative languages, Georgian-Zan languages, Kartvelian languages, languages of Georgia (country) and languages of Turkey.

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Georgian scripts

The Georgian scripts are the three writing systems used to write the Georgian language: Asomtavruli, Nuskhuri and Mkhedruli.

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Germany

Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), is a country in Central Europe.

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Glottal consonant

Glottal consonants are consonants using the glottis as their primary articulation.

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Grammatical aspect

In linguistics, aspect is a grammatical category that expresses how a verbal action, event, or state, extends over time.

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Grammatical case

A grammatical case is a category of nouns and noun modifiers (determiners, adjectives, participles, and numerals) that corresponds to one or more potential grammatical functions for a nominal group in a wording.

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Grammatical mood

In linguistics, grammatical mood is a grammatical feature of verbs, used for signaling modality.

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Grammatical number

In linguistics, grammatical number is a feature of nouns, pronouns, adjectives and verb agreement that expresses count distinctions (such as "one", "two" or "three or more").

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Grammatical relation

In linguistics, grammatical relations (also called grammatical functions, grammatical roles, or syntactic functions) are functional relationships between constituents in a clause.

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Grammatical tense

In grammar, tense is a category that expresses time reference.

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Julius Klaproth

Heinrich Julius Klaproth (11 October 1783 – 28 August 1835) was a German linguist, historian, ethnographer, author, orientalist and explorer.

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Karto-Zan languages

The Karto-Zan languages, also known as Georgian–Zan, are a branch of the Kartvelian language family that contains the Georgian and Zan languages. Laz language and Karto-Zan languages are Agglutinative languages, Georgian-Zan languages and Kartvelian languages.

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Kartvelian languages

The Kartvelian languages (tr; also known as South Caucasian, Kartvelic, and Iberian languagesBoeder (2002), p. 3) are a language family indigenous to the South Caucasus and spoken primarily in Georgia. Laz language and Kartvelian languages are Agglutinative languages and languages of Georgia (country).

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Kaskian language

Kaskian (Kaskean) was the language of the Kaskians (Kaska) of northeastern Bronze Age Anatolia in the mountains along the Black Sea coast.

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Labial consonant

Labial consonants are consonants in which one or both lips are the active articulator.

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Languages of the Caucasus

The Caucasian languages comprise a large and extremely varied array of languages spoken by more than ten million people in and around the Caucasus Mountains, which lie between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea. Laz language and languages of the Caucasus are Agglutinative languages.

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Latin script

The Latin script, also known as the Roman script, is a writing system based on the letters of the classical Latin alphabet, derived from a form of the Greek alphabet which was in use in the ancient Greek city of Cumae in Magna Graecia.

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Laz people

The Laz people, or Lazi (ლაზი Lazi; ლაზი, lazi; or ჭანი, ch'ani; Laz), are a Kartvelian ethnic group native to the South Caucasus, who mainly live in Black Sea coastal regions of Turkey and Georgia.

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Lazistan

Lazistan or Lazeti (Lazona; Lazeti, or ჭანეთი Ç'aneti; Lazistān) is a historical and cultural region of the Caucasus and Anatolia, the term was primarily used during Ottoman rule in the region. Laz language and Lazistan are laz people.

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Lezgian language

Lezgian, also called Lezgi or Lezgin, is a Northeast Caucasian language. Laz language and Lezgian language are languages of Georgia (country) and languages of Turkey.

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Literary language

Literary language is the form (register) of a language used when writing in a formal, academic, or particularly polite tone; when speaking or writing in such a tone, it can also be known as formal language.

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Lorenzo Hervás

Lorenzo Hervás y Panduro was a Spanish Jesuit and philologist; born at Horcajo, 1 May 1735; died at Rome, 24 August 1809.

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Melyat

Melyat, is one of the main water streams of Pazar and Çayeli in the eastern Black Sea Region of Turkey.

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Mid vowel

A mid vowel (or a true-mid vowel) is any in a class of vowel sounds used in some spoken languages.

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Mingrelian language

Mingrelian, or Megrelian (მარგალური ნინა) is a Kartvelian language spoken in Western Georgia (regions of Mingrelia and Abkhazia), primarily by the Mingrelians. Laz language and Mingrelian language are Agglutinative languages, Definitely endangered languages, Georgian-Zan languages, Kartvelian languages and languages of Georgia (country).

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Nakh peoples

The Nakh peoples are a group of North Caucasian peoples identified by their use of the Nakh languages and other cultural similarities.

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Nasal consonant

In phonetics, a nasal, also called a nasal occlusive or nasal stop in contrast with an oral stop or nasalized consonant, is an occlusive consonant produced with a lowered velum, allowing air to escape freely through the nose.

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Noun

In grammar, a noun is a word that represents a concrete or abstract thing, such as living creatures, places, actions, qualities, states of existence, and ideas.

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Novorossiysk

Novorossiysk (Новоросси́йск) is a city in Krasnodar Krai, Russia.

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Open vowel

An open vowel is a vowel sound in which the tongue is positioned as far as possible from the roof of the mouth.

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Palatal consonant

Palatals are consonants articulated with the body of the tongue raised against the hard palate (the middle part of the roof of the mouth).

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Pitsunda

Pitsunda (Пиҵунда, Пицунда) or Bichvinta (ბიჭვინთა) is a resort town in the Gagra District of Abkhazia/Georgia.

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Plosive

In phonetics, a plosive, also known as an occlusive or simply a stop, is a pulmonic consonant in which the vocal tract is blocked so that all airflow ceases.

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Pontic Greek

Pontic Greek (translit, translit; Rumca or Romeika) is a variety of Modern Greek indigenous to the Pontus region on the southern shores of the Black Sea, northeastern Anatolia, and the Eastern Turkish and Caucasus region. Laz language and Pontic Greek are languages of Georgia (country) and languages of Turkey.

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Proto-Kartvelian language

The Proto-Kartvelian language, or Common Kartvelian (tr, tr), is the linguistic reconstruction of the common ancestor of the Kartvelian languages, which was spoken by the ancestors of the modern Kartvelian peoples. Laz language and Proto-Kartvelian language are Agglutinative languages and Kartvelian languages.

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Samsun

Samsun, historically known as Sampsounta (Σαμψούντα) and Amisos (Ancient Greek: Ἀμισός), is a city on the north coast of Turkey and a major Black Sea port.

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Seyahatnâme

Seyahatname (book of travels) is the name of a literary form and tradition whose examples can be found throughout centuries in the Middle Ages around the Islamic world, starting with the Arab travellers of the Umayyad period.

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Soviet Union

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.

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Svan language

Svan (ლუშნუ ნინ lušnu nin; tr) is a Kartvelian language spoken in the western Georgian region of Svaneti primarily by the Svan people. Laz language and Svan language are Agglutinative languages, Definitely endangered languages, Kartvelian languages and languages of Georgia (country).

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Texas A&M University

Texas A&M University (Texas A&M, A&M, or TAMU) is a public, land-grant, research university in College Station, Texas.

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Trill consonant

In phonetics, a trill is a consonantal sound produced by vibrations between the active articulator and passive articulator.

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Trojan War

The Trojan War was a legendary conflict in Greek mythology that took place around the 12th or 13th century BC.

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Tuapse

Tuapse (Туапсе́; Тӏуапсэ) is a town in Krasnodar Krai, Russia, situated on the northeast shore of the Black Sea, south of Gelendzhik and north of Sochi.

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Turkey

Turkey, officially the Republic of Türkiye, is a country mainly in Anatolia in West Asia, with a smaller part called East Thrace in Southeast Europe.

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Turkic languages

The Turkic languages are a language family of more than 35 documented languages, spoken by the Turkic peoples of Eurasia from Eastern Europe and Southern Europe to Central Asia, East Asia, North Asia (Siberia), and West Asia. Laz language and Turkic languages are Agglutinative languages.

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Turkish alphabet

The Turkish alphabet (Türk alfabesi) is a Latin-script alphabet used for writing the Turkish language, consisting of 29 letters, seven of which (Ç, Ğ, I, İ, Ö, Ş and Ü) have been modified from their Latin originals for the phonetic requirements of the language.

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Turkish language

Turkish (Türkçe, Türk dili also Türkiye Türkçesi 'Turkish of Turkey') is the most widely spoken of the Turkic languages, with around 90 to 100 million speakers. Laz language and Turkish language are Agglutinative languages and languages of Turkey.

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UNESCO

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO; pronounced) is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) with the aim of promoting world peace and security through international cooperation in education, arts, sciences and culture.

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Uvular consonant

Uvulars are consonants articulated with the back of the tongue against or near the uvula, that is, further back in the mouth than velar consonants.

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Velar consonant

Velars are consonants articulated with the back part of the tongue (the dorsum) against the soft palate, the back part of the roof of the mouth (also known as the "velum").

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Voice (phonetics)

Voice or voicing is a term used in phonetics and phonology to characterize speech sounds (usually consonants).

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Written language

A written language is the representation of a language by means of writing.

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Zan languages

The Zan languages, or Zanuri (ზანური ენები) or Colchidian, are a branch of the Kartvelian languages constituted by the Mingrelian and Laz languages. Laz language and Zan languages are Agglutinative languages, Georgian-Zan languages, Kartvelian languages, languages of Georgia (country) and languages of Turkey.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laz_language

Also known as Chanuri, ISO 639:lzz, Laz alphabet, Lzz.

, Noun, Novorossiysk, Open vowel, Palatal consonant, Pitsunda, Plosive, Pontic Greek, Proto-Kartvelian language, Samsun, Seyahatnâme, Soviet Union, Svan language, Texas A&M University, Trill consonant, Trojan War, Tuapse, Turkey, Turkic languages, Turkish alphabet, Turkish language, UNESCO, Uvular consonant, Velar consonant, Voice (phonetics), Written language, Zan languages.

Laz language, the Glossary

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See also

Georgian-Zan languages

Kartvelian languages

Languages of Georgia (country)

Laz people

References