called Pontiaká . Pontians also refer to their language as ????????? ?????? Pontiakón lalían and at times as ?????? Laziká. The variety is also called ???????? ????????? Pontiake diálektos in standard modern Greek.

In Turkish, there is no special name for Pontic Greek; it is called Rumca , derived from the Turkish word Rum, denoting Byzantine Greeks. Nowadays, Pontic speakers living in Turkey call their language Romeyka,