Greek-speakers of Pontus, Turkey (Part 2) 

As a Turk knowing ancient Greek it is also a little bit understandable for me. And I did not know there were a lot of people speaking Pontus Greek. So I am very happy to see them.

The way the gentleman with the glasses pronounces Romaika (roh-mah-ee-ka) just tickles me, as it seems that the Pontic dialect has retained certain pronunciations from Ancient Greek. This, along with Calabrian Greek, are my favorite Greek dialects spoken outside of Greece.

What a vibrant, colorful community! The Pontic Greeks are a community that has been around since ancient times. Just incredible.

Tom you did an amazing job, well done!

Extremely interesting! Thanks a lot for the video

Their dialect is actually more "purely" Greek, closer to Ancient Greek rather than the Neohellenic, but somehow they are proud Turks. That's what happens when nation equals religion. Non-Greek speaking (originally) people in Greece (e.g. Arvanites or Slavs of Macedonia) are considered Greeks because they are Orthodox but these people not because they are Muslim. Does that even make sense?

Respect to Greek Pontic people from a Catholic Albanian.

these people were able to preserve their language. Orthodox Turks who were deported from Karaman to Greece, unfortunately, their language was forgotten

I am learning Greek aswell, beautiful language.

Hi from Germany! My father is originally from Trabzon (sürmene - sourmena). He doesn‘t know anything about his past or family background. He considers himself turkish because they were never taught anything else. He does not know any romaika but we use rum-words everyday! Especially when we talk about animals, fruits, vegetables etc. My mother is originally from Samsun. My DNA test told me I was 40% greek. I want to learn more about past sourmena. The village name is “Petekli/Magavla“. Maybe I can get in contact with people whose ancestors lived there with my ancestors. I‘m so invested in learning more about the history of my ancestors🇹🇷🇬🇷❤️

Yaşasın Pontus Yaşasın Rum Kültürü 💙💛

Ωραίος!!! Μπράβο!

Μπράβο Τομ κάνεις καλή δουλειά

Εξισλαμισμένη Έλληνες και το γνωρίζουν ότι έχουν ελληνική καταγωγή όχι όλη αλλά πάρα πολλοί

Hi from giresun(kerasuni)

Για σού Αδερφέ Πόλα καλά καλατσεφς τα ποντιακά!!

Great Job Tom Listen 4:26 The guy said :Απ'Όθεν έρθεταιν,They used the word Όθεν which means "from where" instead of "Απο Πού".Απ'Όθεν έρθετε means where are you from,From where you came here?

they use a lot of pure ancient Greek words

Don't you have a pontic greek with you? I am and they speak ancient greek...I wish I could speak to them. Try these phrases: Te ftas? (what are you doing?), Oromeos ise?

My grand fathers used to live there we are the last Buzantines in Anatolia the heartlands of Byzantium

Ahahaha you've found the most leftist kahvehane in the black sea region. Great video!

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Majority Muslims , or any majority in any country doesn’t adopt culture and religion of a different minority. They are clearly Greek converts. Hamshen Armenians converted hundreds of years ago, they still speak Armenian.

Is the weather there always foggy?

Pontus is alive !

It's sad to see the next generation won't even remember how to speak Greek. They won't even classify themselves as Greeks. Their language will become turkish and and call themselves turks. Very sad to see. This is the older generation and they only speak a little Greek.

3:45 Eksi,epta,okto,enya,deka,endeka,dodeka😊

kala erθes semeteron merea. Auto ti ğlossa epomene emas aso rum osto ğar şincenune temeters. Omon to ipes auto to horiya simo uk(ç)en so politias. har esena kat na eroto erθes çe eporpadeses çe evres pu ekser romeika ti ğlossa. Gioksam ependesas atins? aksana permenumese çe seson to videoδasis.

The Osman Empire just forcefully converted them to Islam. That's not acceptable in Islam at all.

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wtf :/ i'm originally from eastern black sea region but i raised in somewhere else. i have never known that people who can speak greek, drink rakı and hang communistic stuff on their walls are living in there. surprising !

Forcibly converted and told to be turk

Trabzon!!!!

Μην προσκυνατε βρε Ελληνες! Εμεις και τον θεό μας ορθιοι τον κοιτάζουμε!

ZİTO O ELLAS ZİTO İ PONTOS🇬🇷❤🇬🇷

Native original greeks from asia

Why do they have picture of Ataturk?

the fact that young kids don't speak the language is depressing romeikas fate is pretty much decided, :(

We dont know after 5🤣

Tonya'da Che Guevra Atatürk dENİZ gEZMİŞ POSTERLERİ VAY VAY VAY

They basically dead ?

It’s hilarious all these guys can count only to five. Just enough to tell how many kids they have.

Ο δίδυμος του Χάρρυ Κλυνν

TA ADERFIA MAS POU EMINAN STON PONTO!!!

"Nearly half a million muslims left greece for turkey"😂

Как можно этих предателей назвать Эллином,а уж тем более Понтийцем?Пусть турками называются и Ататюрку молиться

1 million in exchange for 500k? Very fair exchange lol

Roman-GReek people❤

This is their land they have all greek origin and they are ex orthodox! Pity to see them like this … :(

nereyee geldik lann kahvehane dedik, kübahane cikti xd

немає землі, немає народу, немає народу, немає мови!

Such a shame they become muslims like president Erdogan of Turkey he comes from Pontus and a Greek village call it Kerasia the cherry tree

Grek muslim

Religion is part of one’s identity. It defines your identity. Whole nations are built in religion differences. Bloodline it’s not everything.

There you can see turkey was a bridge and Indo European language was spread over turkey Iran til India. You just compared the numbers and compare.the Greek the Armenian the kurdisch the Iranian languages. Amazing links

Are they Greek or Turkish people?

0:43 The Pontic Greeks didnt just "left" their homes.It happened a war and a Genocide of 353.000 Pontic Greeks by the Turks and Kemal Ataturk.Ποντος ειναι η θαλασσα στα Αρχαια Ελληνικα για να τους φυγει η απορια."Ki" ερχεται απο το "Ουκι" σαν συντομια και ειναι αρχαιοελληνικο.

Bunlara beşten fazla saymak zaten gerekmez. 6 çocukları varsa derler "5 çocuğun yanina 1 tane daha yaptık." 😂

Thank God my ancestors moved to Greece and kept their religion ☦️

Это мне напоминает захваты инопланетянами людей и обращение в свою непонятную веру из корабля звучит это непонятные звуки и они падают и бьют челом

Как больно на это смотреть

2:03 2:15 3:01 To be honest, having nationalistic posters of the person that basically massacred and hunted your ancestors out of necessity, ignorance and/or fear makes me very upset.

That’s very sad to see

Biggest supporters of Erdogan!

There is no Romaic language. It is not Romaic the language that you are speaking. It is Hellenic from Pontus.

as a greek i find it really strange that the greek speakers of pontus have to face kemal ataturk in every place they go

black sea greeks were massacred in the thousands and these people’s ancestors’ identity and most importantly religion were forcefully changed by the ottomans same goes to some villagers of armenian decent living east of pontus that speak armenian but identify as turkish muslims. I just cant imagine what horrible things the ottomans did to the christians of that region from Armenians to Black sea greeks to the Assyrians. may they all rest in peace and for these living descendants to go back to theur roots again.

Bro, Bruh. İts my village, so no one can speak greek in my village. Maybe someones know greek in the east of Trabzon. But this video isnt true.

2:03 this is very sad actually and we see very clear what Turkification has done , this guy right there in the flag Ataturk is the one who genocided us and now our people having him in the flag , the flag of our genociders , they forget the Greek Genocide , the forget the ones who slaughtered us. Greeks remember we are Greeks , we aren't Turks , never forget our roots! 🇬🇷

They betrayed Armenians and sided with turks, and still most of them flee at the end of 1920.

i am Greek pondi, and i dont see them as greek or pondi, they are turk muslims fascist now, so for me i dont care about them, but pondi in armenia, russia ukraine, greece etc its my familey greatings from a greek who lives in sweden

Pontus is very unique. It's correct name is Lazica. Both "Turks" and "Greeks" from Pontus are assimiliated Lazes. Same goes for Hemshins who are Armenian speaking Lazes. It doesn't matter if they speak Laz, Greek, Armenian or Turkish, they have been called Lazes by the rest of Anatolia for centuries and this phenomenom still persists to this day. It is probably the one region in the region which has preserved its genetic profile for thousands of years and still does, unlike Greece or Anatolia whose native populations have been dilluted with Turks, Slavs and Albanians. On the cover it may look like things changed, but neither the "Greek Colonies" or "Turkish Settlers" have had any genetic impact on the population. While it is very interesting and it might be sad that Romeika is dying in Turkey, one has to realize that the Pontic Muslims has a lot more to gain from embracing a Muslim and Turkish identity rather than a Greek one (or even their original one Laz before Hellenization by the Orthodox Church). Pontic Muslims are the dominant group in trade and government in Turkey and also have a high group cohesion, even though they have fully embraced a Turkish identity. The cultural diffrence between Trabzon and the rest of the Turkey is very sharp. I know the same diffrence exists in Greece, where Pontic Greeks are negatively prejudiced as short-tempered and aggressive (usually pontic greeks beat the greek kids in schools). Diffrence is Pontic Greeks don't have a their own cities or territories in Greece and will probably vanish in Greece before the 22nd century. In Turkey they still live in their ancestral homelands and will probably keep their genetic and cultural profile in-tact for hundred of years to come. For Pontian Greeks that actually care about preserving their culture, you only shot at this is moving back to Turkey.

The need to come back to Christianity

They lost the Greek identity.They are turks.

as a pontic greek who doesn’t know pontic i don’t understand a thing

They speak Greek and the poster of ataturk is crying behind them 🤣

As a greek Orthodox from Anatolia it disgusts me seeing the modern pontic Greeks supporting Attaturk and being Muslims

The Treaty of Lausanne of 1923 between Greece and Turkey provided for the exchange of population. The Greeks would go to Greece and the Turks would go to Turkey. The Greek state lied and filled the ships with Albanian Muslims, considering them Turks only because they were Muslims, even though they did not know a word of Turkish. They forced them to their lands of thousands of years and took them to the desert plains of Anatolia. While the Pontiac population was exiled to Greece just because they were Orthodox, even though they did not know a word of Greek. They told you that they were the descendants of Aristotle and they believe even today that they are the descendants of Aristotle. You yourself are saying that you should preserve your language by passing it on to your children. It means that you are not Greek and speak a language different from Greek.

Yunanistan turkiyete iki saat dayanamaz OHİ

Keine Untertitel 🖕🖕🖕

Not Greek. Romaika👍

end of the day they r turks

The Pontian language is not Greek. Just because they mix a few Greek words into their own dialect doesn't mean that they are Greek. And those few Greek words they use, they say them wrong. They have simply copied them and added them to their dialect. Pontians are not Greek, and their culture has nothing to do with Greek. They have no Greek characteristics or connections to be called Greeks. These are their own creations!

Biz rumca biliyoruz ailem dedelerim hepsi akıcı rumca konuşurlardı ben çok çok az biliyorum konuşamıyorum. Ama biz rum değiliz türküz. Müslümanız. Müslümanlar hep bir millet olmuş sonra ulus devlet kurulunca da tüm müslümanlar türk adı ile bu devletin çatısı altında türk kimliği ile birleşmiş. Kökenlerimizin Rum çıkması bu sonucu değiştirmez kendimizi Türk bilir Türk tanır Türk hissederiz. Bizim buralardan çok kalabalık Ortodoks gruplarda yunanistana gitmiş. Eskileri bilen Yaşlıların Dediklerine göre ama o giden ortodoksların da ekseriyetle çoğunluğu hiç rumca bilmez hep türkçe konuşurlar türk gibi yaşarlarmış. Belki de onlarda köken olarak Türktüler ama ortodoks olduklarından Yunanlılara yakındılar ve bu yüzden de gönderildiler ve insanlar onlara şimdi Yunan diyor Yunan kimliği altında birleştiler. Doğrusu ne fark eder herkes ne hissediyorsa odur.