Black Sea Greek dialect area

E762994

dialect area linguistic region

The Black Sea Greek dialect area is a linguistic region along the southern coast of the Black Sea where distinctive Pontic and related Greek dialects historically developed and were spoken.

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Label	Occurrences
Black Sea Greek dialect area canonical	1

Statements (44)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	dialect area ⓘ linguistic region ⓘ
associatedEthnicGroup	Pontic Greeks NERFINISHED ⓘ Romeika-speaking Greeks NERFINISHED ⓘ
borderedBy	Pontic Mountains NERFINISHED ⓘ
coastalTo	Black Sea NERFINISHED ⓘ
declineCause	language shift to Turkish ⓘ population exchanges between Greece and Turkey in the 1920s ⓘ
developedFrom	Koine Greek NERFINISHED ⓘ Medieval Greek NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasCharacteristic	conservative Greek linguistic features ⓘ distinct morphology compared to Standard Modern Greek ⓘ distinct phonology compared to Standard Modern Greek ⓘ lexical influence from Caucasian languages ⓘ lexical influence from Turkish ⓘ
hasLinguisticFeature	archaisms reminiscent of Ancient Greek in some varieties ⓘ distinctive verb morphology compared to Standard Modern Greek ⓘ retention of infinitive in some varieties ⓘ
historicallySpokenLanguage	Eastern Pontic Greek NERFINISHED ⓘ Ophitic Greek NERFINISHED ⓘ Pontic Greek NERFINISHED ⓘ Romeyka NERFINISHED ⓘ
historicalRegionOfUse	Pontus NERFINISHED ⓘ Trabzon region NERFINISHED ⓘ coastal areas of modern Turkey on the Black Sea ⓘ northeastern Anatolia ⓘ
locatedIn	Black Sea region NERFINISHED ⓘ southern coast of the Black Sea ⓘ
modernStatus	fragmentarily preserved in some villages of northeastern Turkey ⓘ largely endangered dialect area ⓘ
notableCity	Giresun NERFINISHED ⓘ Ordu NERFINISHED ⓘ Samsun NERFINISHED ⓘ Trabzon NERFINISHED ⓘ
partOf	Greek dialect continuum ⓘ Hellenic linguistic world NERFINISHED ⓘ
relatedDialectArea	Asia Minor Greek dialect area NERFINISHED ⓘ Cappadocian Greek dialect area NERFINISHED ⓘ
studiedInField	dialectology ⓘ historical linguistics ⓘ sociolinguistics ⓘ
timePeriod	Byzantine period ⓘ Ottoman period ⓘ early 20th century ⓘ

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Chaldiot → regionType → Black Sea Greek dialect area ⓘ