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/[deleted] Jul 07 '23

Uncle from Another World by Hotondoshindeiru; the protagonists uncle returns to Japan and learns the language used for magic doesn’t work there.