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Lorna Gibb, Rare tongues: The secret stories of hidden languages Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2025. Pp. 257. Hb. $30/£20.

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Lorna Gibb, Rare tongues: The secret stories of hidden languages Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2025. Pp. 257. Hb. $30/£20.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 September 2025

Shuzhen Jiang Open the ORCID record for Shuzhen Jiang [Opens in a new window]  and
Junwei Zhu
Shuzhen Jiang*
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School of Foreign Languages, Hangzhou City University, China Hangzhou Collaborative Innovation Institute of Language Services, China
Junwei Zhu
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School of Foreign Languages, Hangzhou City University, China
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Language in Society , First View , pp. 1 - 4
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