Cover art for The Language Lover's Puzzle Book
Published
Guardian Books, January 2022
ISBN
9781783352197
Format
Softcover, 416 pages
Dimensions
19.8cm × 12.9cm × 2.5cm

The Language Lover's Puzzle Book Lexical perplexities and cracking conundrums from across the globe by

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'Alex Bellos is a wizard.' - Tim Harford, author of The Undercover Economist

The Language Lover's Puzzle Book is a book of more than 100 surprising and entertaining puzzles that celebrate the amazing diversity of the world of words and language.

Featuring a huge variety of ancient, modern and even invented languages, this collection of problems will introduce you to unusual alphabets and scripts, curious vocabularies and phonologies, and global variations in simple behaviours like counting, telling the time, and naming children.

Whether you are a crossword solver, a code-breaker or a Scrabble addict, these puzzles are guaranteed to twist your tongue and sharpen your mind.

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