Linguaphile Issue 1: Everything Left Unsaid
An independent magazine about language
Linguaphile is a new independent magazine exploring the human side of language—not through grammar or theory but through people, place, memory, and design. Instead of focusing on dominant global languages, the publication looks at minoritized languages and speakers. It asks what happens when a way of speaking, along with the cultural knowledge it carries, is pushed to the margins.
Issue 1, Everything Left Unsaid, gathers perspectives from across Asia: stories of languages with only a few speakers left, families navigating life in places where their native language is misunderstood or unwelcome, and communities whose cultural practices are disappearing along with the words that describe them. Among many other pieces, readers will find an essay by Deaf activist Makiko Yamamoto on how Japanese Sign Language reshaped her life; a report from Okinawa that questions what counts as a “language” when identity and politics collide; and a reflection by graphic designer Raeda Sarwar on Bangla typography as a way of reconnecting with diasporic identity.
The issue moves between reportage, personal narrative, and visual storytelling, with contributions from linguists, designers, translators, photographers, and third-culture kids who have spent their lives across languages.
Issue 1 invites readers to reflect, to listen and watch, and to rediscover language as a human practice: fragile, embodied, and deeply connected to emotion, environment, and everyday life.
Linguaphile Issue 1: Everything Left Unsaid
Publisher: Kuina Books
Publication Date: December 2025
Editors: Mābu Nauendorff, Alice Polaschek, Danielle Absin, Shana Ryan
Photography: Higa Raito, Severin Jakob, Vishan Singh, Stefan Dotter, Claudia Fährenkemper
Design: Mābu Nauendorff, Michelle Körner
Format: 21 × 28 cm
Volume: 104 pages
Binding: Softcover (8-page cover), perfect bound; includes a thread-stitched Japanese translation booklet for all copies distributed in Japan
Printing: Full-colour offset printing by Druckerei Kettler
Paper: Holmen TRND Classic; Pergraphica Classic Rough
Languages: English (with bilingual sections in Japanese and Bangla); separate Japanese translation booklet available
ISBN: 978-3-00-084992-3
Price: 22 €
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