Pontic Greek
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pontic-greek-163-7048755
title:
Pontic Greek
text:
Pontic Greek 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. Like nearly all of Greek varieties spoken today, the linguistic lineage of Pontic Greek stems from the Hellenistic Koine, itself based on Attic–Ionic Greek, which later developed
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Variety of modern Greek
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pontic_Greek
date created:
2004-12-12T10:34:52Z
date modified:
2024-08-28T10:01:17Z
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