The laze is a Caucasian Langue near to the Géorgien, from which it separated, with the Mingrélien, one millenium before the Christian era. The laze does not have any more a written form currently used, the Lazes of Turkey (: 50000) speak laze but use the Turkish like language of written and intercultural communication, while those of Georgia (: 30000) use the Géorgien.

Current Turkish the Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is resulting from this community.

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Internal bonds

• Linguistic
• Dictionary of the languages
• Languages by family
• Group kartvélien
• Languages by geographical area
• Caucasian Languages