In the book of the Arvanite physician, historian and politician from Thebes, Loukas Bellos, which was published in 1903 with funding from the Greek state itself, we read the following interesting passages, as you can see on the scanned pages of the book that I am presenting to you:

“The collection of the linguistic relics of the Albanian dialect [language] began long ago. The first to write Pelasgika was the learned German physician Karl Reinhold [Reinhold], who lived in Piraeus. Likewise, important work on the Albanian language was carried out by the late Arvanite high-school headmaster and teacher of Greek, Koupitoris, who also had the good fortune of being Albanian-speaking.”

We should note that the Arvanite Bellos wrote of Koupitoris that it was a good fortune that he was Albanian-speaking — that is, that his first mother tongue was Albanian — therefore at that time we Greeks regarded it as a good fortune for a Greek to have Albanian as his mother tongue.

Bellos continues:

“I am very pleased to learn that a most important and long-term study was carried out by the Albanian from Albanopolis [Elbasan], Christoforidis, Doctor of Philology and an excellent Hellenist. This valuable work of Christoforidis was purchased by the Greek Government for a considerable sum of money.”

Why did the Greek government of that time pay a very large amount of money to purchase a study by an Albanian philologist on the Albanian language?

Bellos continues:

“Recently, other learned scholars have also begun to work seriously on the Albanian language. Worthy of remembrance and praise is the diligent work of the physician Mr Adamidis from Cairo, who, as I hear, succeeded in collecting a multitude of words having a common root and proving that Albanian is this very Pelasgian language, as the learned German Reinhold also maintained, and as very many Greek and Albanian scholars have believed and taught since the foundation of the Kingdom of Greece and the revival of letters.”

Bellos then explains how he was taught the Albanian language and how he was initiated into Albanian studies:

“I received my first lessons in the Albanian language in Thebes, all the surrounding areas and suburbs of which are Albanian-speaking. I learned Albanian sufficiently well in Athens as a pupil and student of my peer and dearest friend Mr Georgios Chatzidimitriou, a physician by profession and a native of Eleusis. I was initiated into Albanian studies by the late Vasileios Vendevis, formerly a pharmacist in Athens.”

So what do we see here? The physician Bellos did not go to some specialised philologist of the Albanian language in order to learn or perfect his Albanian. He went to fellow physicians and pharmacists to be trained in Albanian, something which shows that even then the popular language of the Greeks was Albanian, since ordinary people — and not specialist philologists — not only spoke Albanian, but also had the ability to teach it to others.

Bellos continues by expressing the hope that professional philologists would concern themselves more systematically with the Albanian language because, as he writes, the Albanian language is a linguistic relic. He writes specifically:

“We must hope that professional philologists and scholars will at last decide to work toward the collection of the precious linguistic relics of the various Greek dialects, and especially of the Albanian language; for, if according to the learned German Thiersch, Tsakonian is ‘the direct and genuine offspring of the still largely unformed ancient Pelasgian language’, Albanian is certainly this very ancient Pelasgian language itself [and not an offspring of Pelasgian, as Tsakonian is], which is regarded by grammarians, as is well known, as the first pre-Homeric and prehistoric period of the Greek language.”

Bellos then continues by announcing that in this book he will carry out an etymological and phonological analysis in order to prove that “Albanian is the most ancient living relic of the Greek language, the philological Mycenaean treasure.”

Of course, today, after Michael Ventris’ decipherment of Linear B, we know that the Mycenaean language is Greek. Bellos’ view, however, that Albanian is pre-Homeric and the “Mycenaean treasure” reflects the views held by Greeks of that period that Albanian was not a foreign language, but a language of our own, of the Greeks, and that it was not a more recent language, but an extremely ancient language, the first language spoken by the Greeks.

Even if this view held by Bellos—that the Albanian language is the “Mycenaean Treasure”—was inaccurate, I will prove through a specialized linguistic study-book that Albanian is the “Minoan Treasure,” the language of the Minoans, the ancient inhabitants of Crete. I will demonstrate that all non-Greek (Pre-Greek) inscriptions of Crete are interpreted through Albanian and I will decipher Minoan Linear A as Albanian, proving that the original homeland of the Albanians was not Illyria, but Crete—thus stealing the glory from both Arthur Evans and Michael Ventris, and rendering Albanian as the “Language of the Gods” according to Homer. But even if one were to call Albanian the Mycenaean Treasure, they would not be wrong, because the decipherment of Linear B as Greek does not prove that the Achaeans spoke Greek. The Greek language was the language of the scribes in the palaces of Mycenae, while the common people continued to speak their native tongue, Albanian (Pelasgian). This occurred throughout the entire course of Greek history, up until the 19th century AD, when Greek was the language of city-dwellers, the educated, and scribes, while the language of the common people was Albanian (Arvanitika).

Unfortunately, during the Language Question dispute at the inception of the modern Greek state, the “hairy” Demoticists (malliaroí followers of Psycharis) defeated both the Katharevousa advocates of archaic Greek and the Albanists (Arvanitists). Thus, in Greece today, we have reached a point where Greeks do not understand the true languages of the Greeks—Albanian, Ancient Greek, and Archaic/Katharevousa—but only the “hairy,” Romaic, Modern Greek, the language of the mob and the street.

Without the true Greek language, there can be no development of letters and culture. The time of Albanism and Ancient Hellenism will soon arrive with the revival of Albanian/Arvanitika (Pelasgian) and Ancient Greek/Archaic as the only official spoken languages of Hellenism. Only then will new Platons, Aristotles, Mistriotises, Koumanoudises, and other titans of philology be forged, and only then will we have true Hellenism. The time will soon come when the movement of the Demoticist Psycharis and the fraud of Modern Hellenism that has occupied Greece for the past two centuries will be buried once and for all, and Modern Greek culture will vanish anonymously into the sewers of Athens and other Greek cities, making way for Ancient Greek and Arvanite culture.

Ancient Greece and Albania: When these two unite, we will have a new cultural explosion, a new spiritual Renaissance, the Third Civilization in the Balkans after Ancient Greece and Byzantium: the pagan Neo-Pelasgian Greco-Albanian Civilization. 2,000 years of falsehood are collapsing.

Reference

Marios Dimopoulos. Philologist – Linguist – Ethnologist. Albanologist – Researcher of Arvanite Culture. Author – Researcher – Speaker at International Academic Conferences