Reddit reviews Other-Wordly: words both strange and lovely from around the world (Book Lover Gifts, Illustrated Untranslatable Word Book)
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Chronicle Books
As you have seen in the other responses there is indeed a large portion of lingusitics and anthropology and cognitve science and sociology devoted to how language has shaped cultures and vice versa . Indeed, there are many concepts for which some cultures have no words.
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Here's one list of some of the better known examples:
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https://www.rocketlanguages.com/blog/20-of-the-worlds-most-beautiful-untranslatable-words/
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There are somr fun books about this topic
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They Have A Word for It
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Lost In Transalation
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Other Worldly
Endangered Words: A Collection of Rare Gems for Book Lovers , The Word Museum: The Most Remarkable English Words Ever Forgotten, Other-Wordly: words both strange and lovely from around the world, not to mention a unabridged dictionary I have that is over a hundred years old.