Pontic

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Pontic, from the Greek pontos (πόντος, póntos), or "sea", can refer to:

The Black Sea

The Pontic colonies, on its northern shores
Pontus (region), 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

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.

Pontic, formerly known as Mutual FC, a Hong Kong Second Division League association football team