Linguaphile is a place for people who love language: its histories, its sounds, and the ways it connects us. We publish writing in English and Turkish, with room for different voices and perspectives.
One heart, many writing systems
Our preliminary logo brings characters from different alphabets and writing systems together in a heart. They stand for the curiosity that brings this magazine together: a love of language, shared across borders.
The characters in the heart
A — Latin
λ — Greek lambda
Ж — Cyrillic zhe
ა — Georgian ani
অ — Bengali vowel ô
語 — Chinese/Japanese character meaning “language”
あ — Japanese hiragana a
መ — Ethiopic/Amharic mä
و — Arabic wāw
क — Devanagari ka