In this month’s issue of the Boulevard News Magazine, Dr. Anastasios Myrodis Tamis provides a heartfelt tribute to the Greek language. In his introduction, Dr Tamis states that the Greek language “was the common language that connected the Greek world for the last 4,000 years. It is the only component of our culture and identity that has remained unchanged, indestructible, always relevant, and has been the nourishment and source of genesis and enrichment for other cultures, languages, and ethnicities. The Greek language was and remains the most immediate and economical characteristic of Greekness, the most obvious feature of our identity. The Greek language is our homeland, the recognition of our national identity. It was the resilience of the language that, through slavery, civil wars, disasters, natural and national disasters, through declarations, through the self-destructive and uncompromising nature of the difficult Greek people, stood as the saving breakwater of our national character. All the other components of our identity, namely Christianity and Orthodoxy, the European world and the East, Byzantium, certainly played a very important role, but our language was the undisputed main and fundamental characteristic of Hellenism.“
The article is available in Greek at the following link to the December 2025-January 2026 issue of the Boulevard News Magazine (refer to Page 8):
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