Requests for new languages/Wikipedia Laz 2

submitted	verification	final decision

	This language has been verified as eligible. The language is eligible for a project, which means that the subdomain can be created once there is an active community and a localized interface, as described in the language proposal policy. You can discuss the creation of this language project on this page. Once the criteria are met, the language committee can proceed with the approval and will verify the test project content with a reliable neutral source, such as a professor or expert. If you think the criteria are met, but the project is still waiting for approval, feel free to notify the committee and ask them to consider its approval.

The community needs to develop an active test project; it must remain active until approval (automated statistics, recent changes). It is generally considered active if the analysis lists at least three active, not-grayed-out editors listed in the sections for the previous few months.
The community needs to complete required MediaWiki interface translations in that language (about localization, translatewiki, check completion).
The community needs to discuss and complete the settings table below:

What	Value	Example / Explanation

Proposal
Language code	lzz (SIL, Glottolog)	A valid ISO 639-1 or 639-3 language code, like "fr", "de", "nso", ...
Language name	Laz	Language name in English
Language name	Lazuri Nena/ლაზური ნენა	Language name in your language. This will appear in the language list on Special:Preferences, in the interwiki sidebar on other wikis, ...
Language Wikidata item	Q1160372 - item has currently the following values: English label: Laz native label (P1705): ლაზური, Lazuri instance of (P31)/subclass of (P279): natural language, modern language / Zan Wikimedia language code (P424): lzz writing system (P282): Latin script, Georgian scripts number of speakers, writers, or signers (P1098): 250,000	Item about the language at Wikidata. It would normally include the Wikimedia language code, name of the language, etc. Please complete at Wikidata if needed.
Directionality	LTR	Is the language written from left to right (LTR) or from right to left (RTL)?
Links		Links to previous requests, or references to external websites or documents.
Site URL	lzz.wikipedia.org	langcode.wikiproject.org

Settings
Project name	Viǩiṕedia	"Wikipedia" in your language
Project namespace	Viǩiṕedia	usually the same as the project name
Project talk namespace	Viǩiṕedia Eǩobğapa	"Wikipedia talk" (the discussion namespace of the project namespace)
Enable uploads	yes	Default is "no". Preferably, files should be uploaded to Commons. If you want, you can enable local file uploading, either by any user ("yes") or by administrators only ("admin"). Notes: (1) This setting can be changed afterwards. The setting can only be "yes" or "admin" at approval if the test creates an Exemption Doctrine Policy (EDP) first. (2) Files on Commons can be used on all Wikis. (3) Uploading fair-use images is not allowed on Commons (more info). (4) Localisation to your language may be insufficient on Commons.
Optional settings
Project logo		This needs to be an SVG image (instructions for logo creation).
Default project timezone	Asia/Ankara	"Continent/City", e.g. "Europe/Brussels" or "America/Mexico City" (see list of valid timezones)
Additional namespaces		For example, a Wikisource would need "Page", "Page talk", "Index", "Index talk", "Author", "Author talk".
Additional settings		Anything else that should be set
Once settings are finalized, a committee member will submit a Phabricator task requesting creation of the wiki. (This will include everything automatically, except the additional namespaces/settings.) After the task is created, it should be linked to in a comment under "final decision" above.

Number of speakers: nearly 250.000
Locations spoken: North East Anatolia, Turkey and Georgia
Related languages: Megrelian language, Georgian language
You can look here to learn about Laz Grammar - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laz_grammar

Arguments in favour

Support. --Dacxiri 19:07, 23 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support: Native speakers of Laz have the competency and willingness to contribute to this project in the long-term. Hence the Laz language deserves to be given the opportunity and priviledge to have its own language edition of Wikipedia along with the existing South Caucasian languages such as Georgian, Armenian and so on. --Jose77 22:46, 24 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Strong Support: i am one of the native speakers of Laz language. We need this, i hope it will be good thank you very much. guri k'ayiten (with good heart)

--Lazuri53li 18:33, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Certainly support (a lot of edits and good admins). Pietras1988 ^TALK 21:04, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support definitely, there must be Wiki page and articles in Laz language. excellent idea. (User: Iberieli) 142.1.161.180 03:32, 26 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Strong support. One of most interesting languages. So of course support.--Gaeser 05:02, 27 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support --BRUTE 06:05, 27 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support, But be sure Laz Wikipedia has written with two alphabets. Georgian and Latin. As Serbian Wikipedia, with Latinica and Kirilica. Dato deutschland 07:10, 27 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support--Jaba1977 11:50, 27 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support, most definitely --Malafaya 10:56, 1 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Strong support, --David1010 10:59, 7 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support. Geagea 20:13, 8 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support--Lika2672 11:30, 13 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support But what kind of alphabet you are going to use for Laz language - Georgian or Latin?--Pandukht 20:45, 13 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Laz language is written in Georgian alphabet or in Turkish version of Latin. But most of Lazs (%90) are living in Turkey and they dont know Georgian alphabet so firstly we will use latin alphabet then i will try to work for latin-georgian converter here [[1]]. By the way thanks for your support. --Dacxiri 02:45, 14 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Support --Mirzali 19:15, 26 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support Support Chabi 06:30, 4 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Support --U.Steele 21:55, 29 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Erdemaslancan 12:50, 30 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Support I agree with Dato deutschland --Veritas-tr 18:53, 13 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]
The Strongest Support — Balakhadze ^{ႫႨႼႤႰႠ} 11:10, 31 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Batuhan duz (talk) 15:33, 21 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Support I am an ethnic Laz, and I would love to see my native language on Wikipedia. --Turkishmememeister 24 August 2018 15:13 (UTC)
Support Cem Rize (talk) 14:13, 13 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Support I'd love to use Wikipedia in my native language. Eren Hatırnaz (talk) 11:52, 1 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Laz language support in Wikipedia is very important for this language to survive. --Cemyildiz (talk) 00:32, 13 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support I am Georgian from Turkey ı know that our Laz brothers have so beautiful culture and language and they interest with it. They do good jobs to protect Laz culture. I would like to see a Laz Wikipedia page it becomes so beautiful. Meambokhe (talk) 09:18, 5 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Parsehos (talk) 11:14, 14 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Arguments against

Not supporting --Dkurashvili 08:47, 11 March 2010 (UTC) I think Laz language is dead and there is no use of wikipedia in this language. Also the number of speakers 250.000 given above comes in contradiction with Laz language article, where just 33.250 is given for 1981.[reply]

Laz language is living, not dead, a lot of people are using it in their lifes. Also, We cant say the true number of speakers because there isnt ethnic people counting or ethnic language counting in Turkey. Just read more about Laz and Laz language and please dont comment if you dont know anything, this is important project for Laz language. --Dacxiri 17:16, 11 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I do know Laz language. But I think you need more arguments, at least more accurate number of native speakers. Good luck, nevertheless. --Dkurashvili 10:02, 12 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Other discussion

The project is eligible. Please, follow other steps from the Language proposal policy to achieve the project creation. --Millosh 03:56, 27 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]