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The Language Lover's Puzzle Book: A World Tour of Languages and Alphabets in 100 Amazing Puzzles
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Series: Alex Bellos Puzzle Books
Logic & Brain TeasersPuzzlesWord Search
Publisher Price: $16.95
ISBN13: 9781615198047
Publisher: Experiment
Published: Nov 9 2021
Pages: 416
Weight: 1.10
Height: 1.18 Width: 5.98 Depth: 8.98
Language: English
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)!
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