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

The Linguaphile heart formed from characters from different writing systems

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