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PonticGreekLanguage
The PonticGreekLanguage is an AtticGreekLanguage of Greece. SIL code: PNT. ISO 639-2: ine. Population: 200,000 in Greece (1993 Johnstone). Population total all countries: 320,000 or more. Region: The majority of speakers live in Salonica, borough of Kalamaria, and the rest of Macedonia in Greece. There may still be speakers on the Black Sea coast of Turkey. Also spoken in Azerbaijan, Canada, Georgia, Kazakhstan, USA. Alternate names: PONTIC GREEK. Comments: Speakers of Standard Greek cannot understand Pontic, and Pontic speakers are reported to not understand or speak Standard Greek. Pontic clubs and centers exist in the Athens-Peiraeus suburbs. Young people may speak Standard Greek as their first language. Speakers in North America are reported to hold onto their language more zealously than those in Greece. Ethnic Greeks in Georgia called 'Rumka' speak Pontic Greek. Brought to Greece in the 1920s and 1930s by immigrants from the Black Sea coast, which had been inhabited by Greeks since antiquity.(extract from http://www.ethnologue.com/)
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InstancesAtticGreekLanguageOf the seven GreekGroupLanguages, six of these are classified as an AtticGreekLanguage.(extract from http://www.ethnologue.com/)
 ContentBearingPhysicalAny Object or Process that expresses content. This covers Objects that contain a Proposition, such as a book, as well as ManualSignLanguage, which may similarly contain a Proposition.
 EntidadeThe universal class of individuals. This is the root node of the ontology.
 GreekGroupLanguageA GreekGroupLanguage is any of seven closely related IndoEuropeanLanguages spoken in Greece and nearby regions.(extract from http://www.ethnologue.com/)
 Linguagem HumanaThe subclass of Languages used by Humans.
 IndoEuropeanLanguageThere are 433 languages categorized as an IndoEuropeanLanguage, forming a major family of the world's languages and including many of the most familiar languages of Europe and South Asia.(extract from http://www.ethnologue.com/)
 LinguagemA system of signs for expressing thought. The system can be either natural or artificial, i.e. something that emerges gradually as a cultural artifact or something that is intentionally created by a person or group of people.
 LanguageFamilyA LanguageFamily is group of SpokenHumanLanguages related through descent from a common ancestral language. (reference from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_family)
 Expressao LinguisticaThis is the subclass of ContentBearingPhysical which are language-related. Note that this Class encompasses both Language and the the elements of Languages, e.g. Words.
 Linguagem NaturalThe subclass of HumanLanguages which are not designed and which evolve from generation to generation. This Class includes all of the national languages, e.g. English, Spanish, Japanese, etc. Note that this class includes dialects of natural languages.
 FisicoAn entity that has a location in space-time. Note that locations are themselves understood to have a location in space-time.
Belongs to Class IndoEuropeanLanguage


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