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Laz are a South Caucasian people mostly living in Turkey. Georgia also has a small Laz population. They call themselves "Lazi" and their language "Lazuri". They are closely related to the Mingrelians, both historically and linguistically. The estimated Laz population in the world is about 1 million. Unlike most of the other South Caucasian people, their language was also infl uenced by Arabic and Turkish, as they were Muslims and were in the Ottoman Empire for about 500 years. The estimated number of Laz speakers today is between 50,000 and 100,000. Today, they live locally in the districts of Rize and Artvin cities of Turkey. Apart from this, there are many villages in the Marmara Region where the Laz who fled from the war of 1877-1878 settled.

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