Complex sentence: As few as 5,000 people speak the dialect but linguists believe that it is the closest, living language to ancient Greek in Greece, Pontic is now used mainly emblematically rather than as a medium of communication.
Split into simpler sentences: As few as 5,000 people speak the dialect but linguists believe that it is the closest, living language to ancient Greek. In Greece, Pontic is now used mainly emblematically rather than as a medium of communication.