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

Whether you're a crossword solver, cryptogram fan, Scrabble addict, or Sudoku savant, The Language Lover's Puzzle Book...
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Author: Alex Bellos
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Language Lover's Puzzle Book: A World Tour of Languages and Alphabets in 100 Amazing Puzzles by Bellos, Alex

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

$17.95

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

$17.95
Author: Alex Bellos
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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)!

Author: Alex Bellos
Publisher: Experiment
Published: 11/01/2021
Pages: 416
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 8.98h x 5.98w x 1.18d
ISBN: 9781615198047

About the Author
Bellos, Alex: - Alex Bellos holds a degree in mathematics and philosophy from Oxford University. His bestselling books Here's Looking at Euclid and The Grapes of Math have been translated into more than 20 languages and were both shortlisted for the Royal Society Science Book prize. His puzzle books include Can You Solve My Problems?, Puzzle Ninja, Perilous Problems for Puzzle Lovers, and The Language Lover's Puzzle Book, and he is also the coauthor of the coloring books Patterns of the Universe and Visions of the Universe. He has launched an elliptical pool table, LOOP. He writes a popular-math blog and a puzzle blog for the Guardian, and he won the Association of British Science Writers award for best science blog in 2016. He lives in London.

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