MultiTree:

Name: Pontic Type: Language Alternate Name: Pontic Greek Spoken in: USA, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Canada, Kazakhstan, Russia, Greece, Turkey, Armenia, Ukraine Number of speakers: 200,000 in Greece (Johnstone and Mandryk 2001). Population total all countries: 324,540 (Ethnologue) Number of speakers: 300000 (UNESCO) Number of speakers: 324535 (World Oral Literature Project) Code: pnt Code Standard: ISO 639-3 Documentation: SIL Families: Indo-European (Indo-Germanische, Indo-Hittite) Parent Language: Greek; Greek (Modern); Modern Greek; Grec; Graecae; Romaic; Neo-Hellenic; Ellinika; Greco; Neu-Griechisch (ell) Child Dialect Groups: Western Pontic; Oinountiac/Niotika (pnt-wes) Eastern Pontic (pnt-eas)

Endangerment Status

---

UNESCO Status: Definitely endangered Ethnologue Status: Not listed Sutherland's Red List: Not listed