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🇬🇷February 9 is International Greek Language Day.
The Greek language was and remains to this day an inexhaustible source of international
scientific terminology, especially in medicine, but also in mathematics, physics, chemistry, engineering, astronomy, quantum mechanics, social sciences and humanities.
An unbroken continuity of 40 centuries of oral tradition and 35 centuries of written tradition, makes Greek the longest
continuously spoken and written language in Europe. As the poet Giorgos Seferis said
during his Nobel Prize Banquet speech in 1963: “Greek language has never ceased to
be spoken. It has undergone the changes that all living things experience, but there has never been a gap.
During the post-classical Hellenistic period, Greek had been for six whole centuries the first international language, the transactional language of many different peoples (lingua franca) and, at the same time, a culture language (Kultursprache).
A widespread presence in many languages, as, over time, Greek has been one of the most important languages in terms of its influence on all other European languages and, through them, in the world of languages. One of the world’s greatest thinkers, the Italian Galileo Galilei, considered the Greek alphabet to be “man’s greatest discovery”.
International Greek Language Day celebrates not only the contributions of Greek literature to world literature, but the potential of the Greek language itself to express ideas and values that have influenced thinkers around the world.
