Pontic, from the
Greek ''pontos'' (, ), or "sea", may refer to:
The Black Sea
Places
* The
Pontic colonies
Colonies in antiquity were post-Iron Age city-states founded from a mother-city (its "metropolis"), not from a territory-at-large. Bonds between a colony and its metropolis remained often close, and took specific forms during the period of classic ...
, on its northern shores
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Pontus (region), a region on its southern shores
* The
Pontic–Caspian steppe, steppelands stretching from north of the Black Sea as far east as the Caspian Sea
* The
Pontic Mountains, a range of mountains in northern Turkey, close to the southern coast of the Black Sea
Languages and peoples
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Pontic Greeks, all Greek peoples from the shores of the Black Sea and Pontus
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Pontic Greek
Pontic Greek ( pnt, Ποντιακόν λαλίαν, or ; el, Ποντιακή διάλεκτος, ; tr, Rumca) is a variety of Modern Greek indigenous to the Pontus region on the southern shores of the Black Sea, northeastern Anatolia, ...
, a form of the Greek language originally spoken by the Pontic Greeks (see above)
* ''Pontic'', as opposed to ''Caspian'' (which refers to the possibly related Nakho-Dagestanian or
Northeast Caucasian languages), is sometimes used as a synonym for the
Northwest Caucasian
The Northwest Caucasian languages, also called West Caucasian, Abkhazo-Adyghean, Abkhazo-Circassian, Circassic, or sometimes ''Pontic languages'' (from the historical region of Pontus, in contrast to ''Caspian languages'' for the Northeast Cauc ...
language family.
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Pontic languages
Pontic is a proposed language family or macrofamily, comprising the Indo-European and Northwest Caucasian language families, with Proto-Pontic being its reconstructed proto-language.
History of the proposal
The internal reconstruction of the Ind ...
, the hypothetical language family linking the Northwest Caucasian and Indo-European languages, and Proto-Pontic, the Pontic proto-language, is the reconstructed common ancestor of Proto-Northwest Caucasian and Proto-Indo-European.
Other uses
*Pontic, a false tooth used within a
dental bridge
A bridge is a fixed dental restoration (a fixed dental prosthesis) used to replace one or more missing teeth by joining an artificial tooth definitively to adjacent teeth or dental implants.
Definitions
Fixed bridge: A dental prosthesis that ...
* Pontic, formerly known as
Mutual FC, a Hong Kong Second Division League association football team
See also
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Pontiac (disambiguation)
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Pontian (disambiguation)
Pontian may refer to:
* Pope Pontian (died 235), 3rd-century Catholic Pope
* Pontian Greeks, a group of ethnic Greeks traditionally from the Pontus and Pontic Mountains regions in northern Turkey
* Pontian Islands, a group of islands on the coast ...
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Pontus (disambiguation)
Pontus or Pontos may refer to:
* Short Latin name for the Pontus Euxinus, the Greek name for the Black Sea (aka the Euxine sea)
* Pontus (mythology), a sea god in Greek mythology
* Pontus (region), on the southern coast of the Black Sea, in modern ...
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