拉茲人拉茲語Lazi (ლაზი) 或 Lazepe (ლაზეფე);土耳其語Lazlar格魯吉亞語Lazi (ლაზი) 或 Č’ani (ჭანი))是土耳其和格魯吉亞黑海沿岸地區的本土族群 。曾是科爾基斯古王國的主要部族,拉茲人最初信仰基督教,在特拉布宗帝國時期他們是該國的主要民族,拉茲族的大部分後在16世紀的奧斯曼帝國來皈依伊斯蘭教遜尼派

拉茲人
ლაზი
1900年代的拉茲人
總人口
202,000 (1970 est.)[1]
分佈地區
 土耳其
  • 160萬[2]
  • or 500,000 to 1,000,000[3]
  • or 250,000[4]
  • or 45,000 to 500,000[5]
 格魯吉亞2,000[5]
 俄羅斯160[6]
語言
拉茲語土耳其語格魯吉亞語
宗教信仰
伊斯蘭教遜尼派在土耳其、
格魯吉亞東正教在格魯吉亞[7]
相關族群
明格列爾人 格魯吉亞人

參考文獻

編輯
  1. ^ Hewsen, Robert H. Laz - Orientation. World Culture Encyclopedia. [2012-01-13]. (原始內容存檔於2016-03-03). The census of 1945 cited 46,987 Laz speakers but did not count Turkish-speaking Laz and is certainly an undercount. The Soviet census of 1926—the last one in which the Laz are mentioned—listed 643 ethnic Laz in Ajaria and 730 Laz speakers. Catford (1970) estimated the total number of Laz at about 50,000, but there is no question that they are gradually becoming assimilated to the Turkish population at large. 
  2. ^ Bülent Günal. 67 milletten insanımız var!. 20 December 2011 [31 January 2015]. (原始內容存檔於2015-07-09) (土耳其語). 
  3. ^ TURKEY - General Information. U.S. English Foundation Research. [26 May 2014]. (原始內容存檔於27 May 2014). 
  4. ^ Jak Yakar. Ethnoarchaeology of Anatolia: Rural Socio-economy in the Bronze and Iron Ages. Institute of Archaeology. [31 January 2015]. (原始內容存檔於2020-11-19). 
  5. ^ 5.0 5.1 Bedrohte Sprachen: Menschenrechtsreport [Endangered Languages Human Rights Report] (PDF) 63. Society for Threatened Peoples: 53. March 2010 [2017-07-20]. (原始內容 (PDF)存檔於2016-03-04) (德語). 
  6. ^ Национальный состав населения [2010 Census: Ethnic composition of the population] (PDF). Russian Federal State Statistics Service. [31 January 2015]. (原始內容存檔於2011-08-21) (俄語). 
  7. ^ Roger Rosen, Jeffrey Jay Foxx, The Georgian Republic, Passport Books (September 1991)