SERIES

Language Worlds is a unique series that explores the cultural histories of the world’s languages as evolving expressions of human experience. Each volume traces a language’s journey across time – its origins and transformations in written and spoken form, and the communities that have shaped and sustained it. Language Worlds offers readers a vivid portrait of how languages both shape and are shaped by the societies that use them. Richly contextual and globally minded, the series invites readers to see languages not as static systems, but as dynamic sites of communication – each with its own rhythms, struggles and creative possibilities.