This paper describes a conceptualization of language and globalization which both recognizes the inseparable relationship between language (use and ideology) and processes of globalization (past and present); as well as the problems this relationship poses for linguistic inquiry. To handle questions of language and globalization in connection with South and Central Asian spaces, the paper further emphasizes its approach to regions as “process geographies”, an outlook which is suggestive of the interest of critically thinking about the notion of “areas” as possibly unfixed, unstable and oscillating entities.