拉兹人

拉兹人（拉兹语Lazi (ლაზი) 或 Lazepe (ლაზეფე)；土耳其语Lazlar ；格鲁吉亚语Lazi (ლაზი) 或 Č’ani (ჭანი)）是土耳其和格鲁吉亚黑海沿岸地区的本土族群 。曾是科尔基斯古王国的主要部族，拉兹人最初信仰基督教，在特拉布宗帝国时期他们是该国的主要民族，拉兹族的大部分后在16世纪的奥斯曼帝国来皈依伊斯兰教逊尼派。

拉兹人 ლაზი
拉兹人 1900s
总人口
202,000 (1970 est.)[1]
分布地区
土耳其	160万[2] or 500,000 to 1,000,000[3] or 250,000[4] or 45,000 to 500,000[5]
格鲁吉亚	2,000[5]
俄罗斯	160[6]
语言
拉兹语、土耳其语、格鲁吉亚语
宗教信仰
伊斯兰教逊尼派在土耳其、 格鲁吉亚东正教在格鲁吉亚[7]
相关族群
明格列尔人 格鲁吉亚人

参考

1. Hewsen, Robert H. Laz - Orientation. World Culture Encyclopedia. [2012-01-13]. （原始内容存档于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]. （原始内容存档于2015-07-09） （土耳其语）.
3. TURKEY - General Information. U.S. English Foundation Research. [26 May 2014]. （原始内容存档于27 May 2014）.
4. Jak Yakar. Ethnoarchaeology of Anatolia: Rural Socio-economy in the Bronze and Iron Ages. Institute of Archaeology. [31 January 2015]. （原始内容存档于2020-11-19）.
5. Bedrohte Sprachen: Menschenrechtsreport [Endangered Languages Human Rights Report] (PDF) 63. Society for Threatened Peoples: 53. March 2010 [2017-07-20]. （原始内容 (PDF)存档于2016-03-04） （德语）.
6. Национальный состав населения [2010 Census: Ethnic composition of the population] (PDF). Russian Federal State Statistics Service. [31 January 2015]. （原始内容存档于2011-08-21） （俄语）.
7. Roger Rosen, Jeffrey Jay Foxx, The Georgian Republic, Passport Books (September 1991)