World Greek Language Day
9 February 2026 — From alpha to omega – come on, catch the letters!
World Greek Language Day is marked on 9 February, the day the poet Dionysios Solomos died in 1857. He wrote the Hymn to Liberty, whose first stanzas became the lyrics of the Greek national anthem. Greece introduced the day in 2017 to celebrate the richness of the language. Greek is one of the oldest written languages in Europe: its earliest records, in the Linear B syllabic script, date from around the 14th century BC. The alphabet still in use today goes back to about the 8th century BC. Greek words and roots are everywhere in science, medicine and philosophy. The sky has a link too: stars in constellations are often labelled with Greek letters under the Bayer system (introduced by Johann Bayer in 1603, where the brightest star is usually alpha). That is why we have Alpha Centauri, and why the star cluster Omega Centauri carries the last letter of the alphabet.
Flying across the sky: An ethereal, bluish-silver figure of the Greek letter alpha, drawn from bright points and thin lines like a constellation, drifting and dancing across the night sky
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