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Key facts
- Region
- originally the Pontus on the Black Sea coast; Greece , Russia , Anatolia , Ukraine , Georgia , and Turkey
- Ethnicity
- Pontic Greeks
- Native speakers
- 778,000 (2009–2015)
- Language family
- Indo-European Hellenic Greek (disputed) Attic – Ionic Attic Koine Pontic Greek
- Dialects
- Mariupolitan ? Ophitic
- Writing system
- Greek , Latin , Cyrillic
- Iso 639 3
- pnt
- Glottolog
- pont1253
- Elp
- Pontic
- Linguasphere
- 56-AAA-aj
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Anatolian Greek dialects until 1923; Demotic in yellow. Pontic in orange. Cappadocian in green, with green dots indicating individual Cappadocian Greek villages in 1910.
Pontic Greek (Pontic: Ρωμαίικα, romanized: Rhomaiika, Greek: Ποντιακά, romanized: Pontiaka; Turkish: Rumca or Romeika), also referred to as Pontic, is a variety of Modern Greek indigenous to the Pontus region on the southern shores of the Black Sea, northeastern Anatolia, and the Eastern Turkish and Caucasus region. An endangered Greek language variety, Pontic Greek is spoken by about 778,000 people worldwide, who are known as Pontic or Pontian Greeks.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Pontic Greek” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.