The Cultural Heritage of the Pontic Greeks of the Black Sea Coast of Ajara

Abstract

The article aims to highlight the language of the Pontic Greeks who live in the Adjara geographic area and reveal interdisciplinary and sociocultural specifications.

The research object is the language of the Ajara Black Sea Greeks in its social context Studying Pontic Greek's life routine is one of the most urgent issue due to the necessity of ethno-cultural process analyses and importance of cultural influence studying that the newcomer Greeks and local dwellers underwent.

Studying Pontic Greek's life routine might become impossible in the future, because back-migration threatens losing value of historically established cultural values of the Greeks living in Georgia and Greek- Georgian unified cultural identity.