Dialect comparison

Cretan Greek vs Pontic Greek

Compare two dialects of Greek side by side — where they're spoken, what they're called, and how they relate.

Cretan Greek

The Greek of Crete. The literary medium of the late-medieval Cretan Renaissance and the basis of a long oral and musical tradition.

Approximate centre
35.34°, 25.14°
Pontic Greek

Romeyka · Pontiaka

The Greek variety historically spoken along the Pontic coast of the Black Sea, brought to mainland Greece by refugees of the 1923 population exchange. Its Anatolian-resident form (Romeyka) survives among Muslim communities near Trabzon.

Spoken in
Approximate centre
41.12°, 25.40°

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