#lazca

“Guri qini giğut’aşi, mjorak va got’ibinaps.”

guess who finally decided to do smth educational? 

“it’s not that hard, it’s just different. Better than that garbage you call Russian by a longshot...”

“Nowadays, to make it intelligible to both parties, the ‘standard’ Lazuri is often the central dialects spoken in Fındıklı and Arhavi. I like speaking my dialects more so, beware. Artvin will try to speak the standard dialect.”

“*cough* let’s start...”

Artvin, “çku ar p’ot’eşe Lazuri oxap’aru...Epto, çku Turkuli oxap’aru heh...”

we normally seldom speak Lazuri...Mostly, we speak Turkish heh...

Okay, first of all, don’t take most long sentences here for granted I studied Laz for little over 2 years now but my Laz is still...meh. 

Now, Lazuri/Lazuri nena as it’s called in Laz language is a language spoken mostly in northeastern Turkey and southwestern Georgia(mostly in Adjara) and it is an endangered language with somewhere among 1.000-50.000+ native speakers and additional second language speakers.

 The important thing about this language is that it comes with a very rich culture, the Laz culture is the dominant culture in the Black Sea region and so the language holds a special place in Black Seans’ hearts. Today many people have volunteered to help Laz grow its community of speakers and learn Laz with many difficulties, but with the help of countless native Laz speakers, the process has become way easier! On websites such as Lazuri nena and people like İsmail Avcı Bucaklişi, you can easily learn Laz, not to mention the National Education Ministry approved Laz grammar books for Laz schools! Unfortunately, though most of the material for learning Laz is in Turkish, some materials also include German and Russian as well as Georgian. 

I was planning to do this for a while lol! Guess I’m doing all the stuff that I needed to do last year this year? :b I’m gonna share my Laz knowledge with y’all in English so who knows maybe I’ll be of some help LOL

Before the Christianity, Laz people were pagans. They had been living with their created and mythological religion. They had believed that heaven is in the sky. When a person dies, their soul rises to the sky and stays with moon and stars. It was believed souls must rise to the sky through the sky gate (mʒa nekna). Nowadays, it is still popular among Laz people to say Mʒaşa exti (arise to the sky)to someone they love, shows that old religion has still impacts on the Laz people even today. 

A Laz Prayer;