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21-630: Lazistan or Lazeti ( Laz : ლაზონა , romanized:  Lazona ; Georgian : ლაზეთი , or ჭანეთი Ç'aneti ; Ottoman Turkish : لازستان , romanized :  Lazistān ) is a historical and cultural region of the Caucasus and Anatolia , the term was primarily used during Ottoman rule in the region. Traditionally inhabited by the Laz people and located mostly in Turkey , with small parts in Georgia , its area

42-726: A list of 67 Laz words with German translations in his Asia Polyglotta . He identified three dialects. In 1844, Georg Rosen published in German the first monograph on Laz, Über die Sprache der Lazen . In 1887, the British diplomat Demetrius Rudolph Peacock included Laz among five languages of the western Caucasus in a paper designed for the use of English-speaking diplomats. 5,061 (second language) 4,956 (second language) 19,144 (second language) 38,275 (second language) 55,158 (second language) The Georgian language , along with its relatives Mingrelian, Laz, and Svan , comprise

63-501: A prolonged visit to Rosen's home in 1885. The Orientalist Friedrich August Rosen was his brother; their father, Friedrich Ballhorn-Rosen, originating from Denmark, was Chancellor of the Principality of Lippe . Georg Rosen married Serena Anna (1830−1902), a painter, and daughter of the composer Ignaz Moscheles . By her he was father of Friedrich Rosen , also diplomat and for a short time German foreign minister, and Jelka Rosen , also

84-651: A result of not communicating with their parents. Most Laz people have a heavy Turkish accent because they cannot practice their mother tongue. Like many languages of the Caucasus , Laz has a rich consonantal system but only five vowels (a, e, i, o, u). Laz is written in Mkhedruli script and in an extension of the Turkish alphabet . For the Laz letters written in the Latin script, the first

105-544: A single Zan language , a view held officially in the Soviet era and still so in Georgia today. In general, however, Mingrelian and Laz are considered as separate languages, due both to the long-standing separation of their communities of speakers (500 years) and to a lack of mutual intelligibility. Although the Laz people are recorded in written sources repeatedly from antiquity onwards, the earliest written evidence of their language

126-580: 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 . Laz

147-453: Is a letter from the writing system introduced in Turkey in 1984 that was developed by Fahri Lazoğlu and Wolfgang Feurstein and the second is the transcription system used by Caucasianists. The nouns are inflected with agglutinative suffixes to indicate grammatical function (four to seven cases , depending on the dialect) and number (singular or plural), but not by gender. The Laz verb

168-465: Is about 7,000 km (2,703 sq mi) with a modern-day population of around 500,000 (including groups outside of the Laz peoples). Geographically, Lazistan consists of a series of narrow, rugged valleys extending northward from the crest of the Pontic Alps ( Turkish : Kuzey Anadolu Dağları, Pontik Alpleri ), which separate it from the Çoruh Valley , and stretches east–west along the southern shore of

189-638: Is from 1787. There is a poem in Evliya Çelebi 's Seyahatnâme (17th century) that has been interpreted as Laz, but it is more likely to represent Pontic Greek . The first definite record of Laz in 1787 was produced by the Spanish Jesuit linguist Lorenzo Hervás . It was largely ignored because Hervás conflated the name of the language with that of the Lezgian language , calling it lingua Lasga, detta ancora Laza, e Lassa . In 1823, Julius Heinrich von Klaproth published

210-577: Is inflected with suffixes according to person and number, and also for grammatical 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". Some distinctive features of Laz among its family are: Georg Rosen (1821%E2%80%931891) He studied in Berlin and Leipzig . From 1844, he

231-525: Is not historically a written language or literary language . As of 1989, Benninghaus could write that the Laz themselves had no interest in writing in Laz. Laz is one of the four Kartvelian languages also known as South Caucasian languages. Along with Mingrelian , it forms the Zan branch of this Kartvelian language family . The two languages are very closely related, to the extent that some linguists refer to Mingrelian and Laz as dialects or regional variants of

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252-515: Is unique among the Kartvelian languages in that most of its speakers live in Turkey rather than Georgia. While the differences between the various dialects are minor, their speakers feel that their level of mutual intelligibility is low. Given that there is no common standard form of Laz, speakers of its different dialects use Turkish to communicate with each other. Between 1930 and 1938, Zan (Laz and Mingrelian) enjoyed cultural autonomy in Georgia and

273-681: The Black Sea . The term “Lazistan” has no longer been in use in Turkey or Georgia since the collapse of the Ottoman Empire. The ethnonym "Laz" is unhesitatingly linked to a Svan toponym Lazan (i.e. the territorial prefix la- + Zan , "land of the Zan"). The suffix - stan ( Persian : ـستان, translit. stân ) is Persian for region. The literal translation is, thus, "Region of the Laz". "Lazistan" has also been referred to Lazica or Lazia. Laz language The Laz or Lazuri language (Laz: ლაზური ნენა , romanized:  lazuri nena )

294-611: The fall of Troy (dated by Eratosthenes to 1183 B.C.). It thus appears that the Kartvelians represent an intrusion into the Georgian plain from northeastern Anatolia, displacing their predecessors, the unrelated Northwest Caucasian and Vainakh peoples , into the Caucasian highlands (Tuite, 1996; Nichols, 2004). The oldest known settlement of the Lazoi is the town of Lazos or "old Lazik", which Arrian places 680 stadia (about 80 miles) south of

315-588: The Kartvelian language family. The initial breakup of Proto-Kartvelian is estimated to have been around 2500–2000 B.C., with the divergence of Svan from Proto-Kartvelian (Nichols, 1998). Assyrian, Urartian, Greek, and Roman documents reveal that in early historical times (2nd–1st millennia B.C.), the numerous Kartvelian tribes were in the process of migrating into the Caucasus from the southwest. The northern coast and coastal mountains of Asia Minor were dominated by Kartvelian peoples at least as far west as Samsun . Their eastward migration may have been set in motion by

336-579: The Sacred Port, Novorossiisk , and 1,020 stadia (100 miles) north of Pityus , i.e., somewhere in the neighborhood of Tuapse . Kiessling sees in the Lazoi a section of the Kerketai, who in the first centuries A.D. had to migrate southwards under pressure from the Zygoi . The same author regards the Kerketai as a "Georgian" tribe. The fact is that at the time of Arrian (2nd century A.D.), the Lazoi were already living to

357-515: The handful of publications that have appeared in Laz. Developed specifically for the Kartvelian languages, the Georgian alphabet is better suited to the sounds of Laz, but the fact that most of the language's speakers live in Turkey, where the Latin alphabet is used, has rendered the adoption of the former impossible. Nonetheless, 1991 saw the publication of a textbook called Nana-nena ('Mother tongue'), which

378-552: The south of Um. The order of the peoples living along the coast to the east of Trebizond was as follows: Colchi (and Sanni); Machelones; Heniochi; Zydritae; Lazai, subjects of King Malassus, who owned the suzerainty of Rome; Apsilae ; Abacsi ; and Sanigae near Sebastopolis. Laz has no official status in either Turkey or Georgia, and no written standard. It is presently used only for familiar and casual interaction; for literary, business, and other purposes, Laz speakers use their country's official language ( Turkish or Georgian). Laz

399-844: Was a dragoman at the Prussian embassy in Constantinople . From 1853 he was the Prussian consul in Jerusalem . From 1867 he was Consul General of the North German Confederation (from 1871, the German Empire ) in Belgrade . In 1875, Rosen returned to Detmold, where, in May 1907, the Rosenstraße was named in his honor. Rosen was a friend of E. A. Wallis Budge . Budge, together with his wife, spent

420-447: Was aimed at all Laz speakers and used both the Latin and Georgian alphabets. The first Laz–Turkish dictionary was published in 1999. Speaking Laz was forbidden in Turkey between 1980 and 1991, because doing so was seen as a political threat to the unity of the country. During this era, some academicians lamented the existence of the Laz ethnic group. Because speaking Laz was banned in public areas, many children lost their mother tongue as

441-413: Was used as a literary language, but an official standard form of the language was never established. Since then, all attempts to create a written tradition in Zan have failed, despite the fact that most intellectuals use it as a literary language. In Turkey, Laz has been a written language since 1984, when a script based on the Turkish alphabet was created. Since then, this system has been used in most of

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