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:

More information:

    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.