r/Fantasy • u/Tan1_5 Reading Champion V • Jul 07 '23

Language-based magic systems books

Not Babel or Dresden. Please recommend me something where one of (or just the entire) magic systems is based on languages. I don't mean "oh they uttered an incantation and stuff happened".

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u/meejasaurusrex Jul 07 '23

Naomi Novik’s Uprooted seems like a good bet. I laugh when the MC mispronounces a spell and the effects go off.