This book provides a morphological description of an endangered variety of Greek, specifically Pontic Greek (or Romeika), spoken by the Pontic community in Georgia. It highlights the unique features of this variety, which retains several archaic elements from Hellenistic or Medieval Greek and exhibits a breakdown of grammatical gender distinctions and an inflectionally active animacy hierarchy. Additionally, the text reveals innovations that set this variety apart from Pontic Greek spoken in Turkey or Greece, primarily due to contact-induced changes. The influence of surrounding languages, such as Turkish and Georgian, which have concatenative morphology, as well as Russian and Standard Greek, which exhibit non-concatenative morphology, has led to various language changes through the transfer of words and constructions. The study emphasizes that these changes have affected both the lexical and structural aspects of the language. This work is part of a larger project examining the impact of transformational processes on language and ethnic identity among Urum and Pontic Greeks in Georgia, funded by the Volkswagen Foundation. The book is published in the Languages of the World series and consists of 168 pages.
