Laz
Clasificación: South Caucasian
·susceptible de extinción
Clasificación: South Caucasian
·susceptible de extinción
La información está incompleta “Europe and North Asia” (211-282) . Tapani Salminen (2007) , C. Moseley · London & New York: Routledge
A language shift to Turkish and Georgian has proceeded increasingly rapidly.
Turkish
Georgian
Spoken along the Black Sea coast in the northeast of Turkey and the southwestern corner of Georgia, including the towns of Pazar (Atina), Ardesen, Camlıhemsin and Fındıklı in Rize Province and Arhavi (Arkabi/Arxave), Hopa (Xopa), Borcka and Sarp (Sarpi) in Artvin Province in
Turkey; Sarpi is partly in the Republic of Ajaria on the Georgian side; there are also Laz villages, founded by refugees of the 1877–8 war, in the western parts of Turkey mainly in Sakarya, Kocaeli and Bolu provinces.
La información está incompleta “Novus Ortus: The Awakening of Laz Language in Turkey” (133-146) . Nurdan Kavakli (2015) , Yazgülü BOZKURT · Sanat ve Dil Araştırmaları Enstitüsü
Feurstein (1983) estimates 250,000 speakers all around the world.
"Laz people are forgetting their own language as younger generation fails to fully acquire the language. There are also semi-speakers who can understand and speak some but generally show tendency to apply for Turkish words instead" (p. 139).
La información está incompleta “The Languages and Linguistics of Western Asia: An Areal Perspective” ( ch. 6) . René Lacroix (2018) , Geoffrey Haig; Geoffrey Khan · Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
According to Andrews (1989: 176), in the 1965 Turkish census, which is the last official statiistic, 26,007 people declared Laz as their mother tongue and 59,101 as their second language.
La información está incompleta “The World Atlas of Language Structures” . Bernard Comrie and David Gil and Martin Haspelmath and Matthew S. Dryer · Oxford University Press
La información está incompleta “Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16th Edition (2009)” . M. Paul Lewis · SIL International
"30,000 in Turkey (1980)...Ethnic population: 92,000 in Turkey (1980)."