Words like demokratiya, teatr, akademiya, logika and kosmos are written today in Uzbek almost exactly as they sound in Greek. They appear in university lecture halls, academic texts and public discourse, from Europe to Central Asia. Born in Greek, these words have acquired a global life of their own.
That enduring, cross-border power of the Greek language stood at the heart of this year’s International Greek Language Day celebrations in Uzbekistan, thousands of kilometres away from Greece.
