Pontic
Facts
- Language: Pontic
- Alternate names: Pontic Greek, Romeyka, Rumca, Rumcika, Romeika,
- Language code: pnt
- Language family: Indo-European, Greek, Attic (SIL classification)
- Number of speakers: 100,000-200,000
- Vulnerability: Threatened
- Script:
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Brought to Greece in the 1920s and 1930s by immigrants from the Black Sea coast, which had been inhabited by Greeks since antiquity.
A Greek language originally from the Pontus region, southern end of the Black Sea, now spoken mostly in northern Greece.