Laz grammar

In Georgia, out of Sarpi, the Laz language islets were also in Abkhazia, but the fate of them is obscure at present.

In Atina-Artasheni dialect: The most common types are: In some morphological contexts featuring two consonants n split only with a vowel, the former can be deleted.

miqonun → miqoun (I have {an animate object}), iqvasinon → iqvasion (s/he will be), mulunan → *muluan → mulvan (they are coming).

Laz has eight grammatical cases: nominative, ergative, dative, genitive, lative, ablative, instrumental and almost extinct adverbial.

Almost all basic Laz cardinal numbers stem from the Proto-Kartvelian language, except ar(t) (one) and eči (twenty), which are reconstructed only for the Karto-Zan chronological level, having regular phonetical reflexes in Zan (Megrelo-Laz) and Georgian.

The numeral šilya (thousand) is a Pontic Greek loanword and is more commonly used than original Laz vitoši.

otxoneçdovit̆oçxoro otxonečdovitočxoro otxmocdacxrameṭi chxarašd chxara Ordinal numbers in Laz are produced with the circumfix ma-...-a, which, in contrast with Megrelian, may be extended with suffix -n. The circumfix ma-...-a originates from Proto-Kartvelian and has regular phonetical equivalents in Georgian (me-...-e) and Svan (me-...-e) The fractional numbers' derivation rule in Laz and Megrelian is akin to Old Georgian and Svan.

Laz verbs are inflected for seven categories: person, number, version, tense, mood, aspect and voice.