Romeyka Project

Romeyka (or Pontic Greek) is a millennia-old variety of Greek in the Black Sea. It is an endangered language with only a few thousand speakers left in Turkey’s Trabzon region and a couple of hundred thousand speakers in Greece, largely heritage speakers.  The Romeyka project —led by Professor Ioanna Sitaridou (University of Cambridge and Queens’ College)— aims to document, revitalise and mend the fragmented history of the endangered Romeyka varieties in Turkey, Greece and diaspora.