Pontic Language

In 1922 and after the end of the war events that occupied the Balkans and especially Greece and Turkey during the decade 1912-1922, the Greeks of Asia Minor and Thrace were forced as a result of international agreements to move away from their ancestral homes. As early as 1829, many Pontians fled to southern Russia, […]

The dialect sung by the Greeks who had settled on the shores of the Black Sea since ancient times, and after the last war were forcibly exchanged from the beginning Ionian, and it took great development in Greece where under the influence of the common Greek, it survived saving elements of the Ionian. The dialect

Perhaps it is commonplace to say that the history of a people is the history of its language or, conversely, that the history of the language of a people is the history of that people. A confirmation that is confirmed in the case of the Pontic dialect. Thus we can see in the Pontic dialect

The dialect sung by the Greeks who had settled on the shores of the Black Sea since ancient times, and after the last war were forcibly exchanged from the beginning Ionian, and it took great development in Greece where under the influence of the common sung Greek, it succumbed saving few elements of the Ionian.