Pontic

Pontic, from the Greek pontos, or "sea", can refer to:

The Black Sea

Geography

• The Pontic colonies, on its northern shores
• Pontus, a region on its southern shores
• The Pontic-Caspian steppe, steppelands stretching from north of the Black Sea as far as the east as the Caspian Sea
• The Pontic Mountains a range of mountains in northern Turkey, close to the southern coast of the Black Sea
• Pontic Greeks, all Greek peoples from the shores of the Black Sea and Pontus

Linguistics

• Pontic may refer to Pontic Greek, 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 language family.
• Pontic is 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.

Medicine

Pontic can also refer to:

• Pontic, a false tooth used within a dental bridge

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