Alternate Names: Pontic Greek
Dialects: None known. Standard Greek , speakers cannot understand Pontic, and Pontic speakers reportedly do not understand or speak standard Greek ,. Pontic clubs and centers exist in the Athens-Peiraeus suburbs.
Genealogy:
Demographics: 400,000 in Greece (2009 Z. Diakonikolaou). Population total all countries: 1,178,000.
Language Use: Youth may speak standard Greek as L1. Speakers in North America reportedly maintain the use of Pontic more zealously than those in Greece.
Language Development: Grammar.
Writing System: Cyrillic, Greek, Latin
Nation of Origin: Greece
Other Comments: Brought to Greece in the 1920s and 1930s by immigrants from the Black Sea coast, which had been inhabited by Greeks since antiquity.