• Language Lover's Puzzle Book: A World Tour of Languages and Alphabets in 100 Amazing Puzzles - Paperback
Language Lover's Puzzle Book: A World Tour of Languages and Alphabets in 100 Amazing Puzzles
Language Lover's Puzzle Book: A World Tour of Languages and Alphabets in 100 Amazing Puzzles

    Language Lover's Puzzle Book: A World Tour of Languages and Alphabets in 100 Amazing Puzzles - Paperback

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    by Alex Bellos (Author)

    Whether you're a crossword solver, cryptogram fan, Scrabble addict, or Sudoku savant, The Language Lover's Puzzle Book is guaranteed to tease your brain and twist your tongue. Puzzle master Alex Bellos begins in Japan, where we can observe some curious counting:

    boru niko = two balls
    tsuna nihon = two ropes
    uma nito = two horses
    kami nimai = two sheets of paper

    ashi gohon = five legs
    ringo goko = five apples
    sara gomai = five plates
    kaba goto = five hippos

    Now, how do the Japanese say "nine cucumbers"?*
    a) kyuri kyuhon
    b) kyuri kyuko
    c) kyuri kyuhiki
    d) kyuri kyuto

    Bellos finds the intrigue--and the human element--in a dizzying array of ancient, modern, and even invented tongues, from hieroglyphs to Blissymbolics, Danish to Dothraki. Filled with unusual alphabets, fascinating characters, and intriguing local customs for time-telling, naming children, and more, this is a bravura book of brainteasers and beyond--it's a globe-trotting, time-traveling celebration of language.

    *The word endings depend on shape: Flat things end in -mai and spherical things end in -ko. Cucumbers are long things (like ropes and legs), so they end in -hon. The answer is (a)!

    Number of Pages: 416
    Dimensions: 1.18 x 8.98 x 5.98 IN
    Publication Date: November 01, 2021
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