Language profiles
Go deeper into the wonderful world of languages with our in-depth look at specific tongues spoken around the world. Want to know how people communicate across wild mountains by whistling? Or how a dying community fights against the onslaught of modernity? Language Profiles lovingly puts these tales of human resilience and ingenuity into context, and gives the reader a small peek into a different way of looking at the world.

Issue 14 | Features | Language profiles | Dialects & Variants
Mandarin dialects: Unity in diversity

Issue 14 | Language profiles | Dialects & Variants
Discovering Angolan Portuguese

Issue 14 | Language profiles | Dialects & Variants
Mutations in Celtic languages

Issue 14 | Features | Language profiles
Te Reo Tahiti

Issue 14 | Features | Language profiles
Mazahua: Text, tone & tradition

Issue 13 | Language profiles | Austronesian Languages
Learning Tok Pisin

Issue 13 | Features | Language profiles
El lunfardo

Issue 12 | Language profiles | Pidgins & Creoles
Chinese Pidgin English

Issue 10 | Language profiles | Constructed languages
Interlingua

Issue 10 | Language profiles | Constructed languages
Esperanto

Issue 10 | Language profiles
Náhuatl

Issue 9 | Language profiles
Rapa Nui
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