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Hellenism is profoundly rich and blessed, possessing one of the greatest cultural assets of the world, the Greek language. Because we often forget it, or through the way we live we forget it or simply take it for granted, this symbolic World Day of the Greek Language, today, is an opportunity.
I welcome the initiative of the Hellenic Foundation for Culture.
The Greek Language, the most precious, but also democratic - I would say - cultural asset, is not a decoration but rather an invitation to a noble spiritual struggle.
From Cyprus, Greek news of the extremes, the always topical verse of Vassilis Michaelides. Synojairi, synotzairi, synotzianno, synotzianno, synotzianzo... Greek words created in the local vernacular. The Cypriot idiom is in itself a eulogy and a celebration of the duration, the everlasting and the function of language with the meaning and the time of history and the life of man.
I close with a word of hope and perseverance and not of consolation, with lyrics by Kostas Montis:
"...few read us / few know our language / we remain unjust and unappreciated / in this distant corner / but it compensates that we write Greek...".
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Watch the message of the Minister of Education here.
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