Can you solve it? Puzzles for language lovers
by Alex Bellos from on (#59V0T)
Up to the task? Decipher yourself!
Today you will be asked to replicate the most famous decipherment in history, deduce the rules of a coding system for colourblind people and count to 100 in Danish. (The puzzles are excerpted from my new book, The Language Lover's Puzzle Book, which features conundrums involving ancient languages, modern languages, invented languages and scientific languages.)
1. Champers for Champollion
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