Que reste-t-il de la langue et de la culture grecques sur les côtes turques de la mer Noire ?

Abstract

This article is an initial socio-historical investigation of a language and a culture, the Pontic language, which awaits rebirth from the ashes in Turkey as well as Greece. In both countries, scholarship has been ’scrambled’ by the nationalisms that misrepresented or devaluated a phenomenon that did not tally with their interpretation of the world: the existence of a Greek-speaking Muslim population. While some recent studies (contested in Turkey) have pointed the way out of this dilemma, the present one takes stock of works on the historiography, the language, the toponomy and even the onomastics, and ultimately calls for multi-disciplinary studieson this historical, linguistic and sociological evidence, which is rapidly disappearing.

Keywords

• pontus linguage
• pontus culture
• Asia Minor
• Greece
• Turkey
• Maçka