31.3490, Books: Dictionary of Laz Plant Names: Aleksiva

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Subject: 31.3490, Books: Dictionary of Laz Plant Names: Aleksiva

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Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2020 22:22:44
From: Ulrich Lueders [lincom.europa at t-online.de]
Subject: Dictionary of Laz Plant Names: Aleksiva

 


Title: Dictionary of Laz Plant Names 
Series Title: LINCOM Scientific Dictionaries 02  

Publication Year: 2020 
Publisher: Lincom GmbH
	   http://www.lincom-shop.eu
	

Book URL: lincom-shop.eu/LSD-03-Dictionary-of-Laz-Plant-Names/en 


Author: Irfan Çağatay Aleksiva

Paperback: ISBN:  9783862902118 Pages: 80 Price: Europe EURO 52.80


Abstract:

Laz, a South Caucasian language, is spoken in the North East of Turkey. It is
also the part of the country abundant with rain. Located at the eastern end of
the Pontus mountain range, which is the continuation of the Caucasian
mountains, this place was split with valleys stretching to the Kaçkar summit
at an altitude of 3937 meters. Traditional corn farming in low and inefficient
agricultural areas has been replaced by tea plantations.

The Laz language was classified as “clearly endangered" languages by UNESCO in
2008. Laz, whose speakers are decreasing from generation to generation, is
largely abandoned by young Laz people. Factors such as the end of the
traditional agricultural economy, urbanization, migration and the gradual
withdrawal of Laz language from modern life has lead to the endangering of
plant names in particular. This knowledge, which is preserved only in people
who have a relationship with agriculture and animal husbandry over a certain
age, will be forgotten with this generation.

This study aims to compile forgotten Laz plant names. For this purpose, 1022
Laz plant names belonging to about 320 taxa were collected and identified by
interviewing more than one hundred people. The English and Turkish and Latin
names of the identified plants were included into the description.
Furthermore, the Mingrelian, Svan and Georgian plant names have been added to
the lists, where possible, which enables the reader to compare, as these
languages have linguistic and geographic relationships to Laz.

The book consists of two chapters. One finds the plant names in Laz in the
first part, and in the second part one finds indices in Turkish, English,
Georgian, Svan, Mingrelian and Latin.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Language Documentation
                     Typology

Subject Language(s): Laz (lzz)


Written In: English  (eng)

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