Endangered Alphabets Word Search Puzzles

by Tim Brookes, Charlotte Artemis Walsh

Both a puzzle book and an introduction to some of the world's fascinating minority scripts, this book takes the traditional word search puzzles and adds a instead of being in letters of the familiar Latin or Roman alphabet, each puzzle asks the reader to find words in Cherokee, Copitc, Syriac and other threatened writing systems, from a helpful word list beside the grid. Accompanying text introduces each script, explains its fascinating features, and tells the tale of how it has come to be endangered. For anyone interested in languages, cultures, and travel, from bright 12-year-olds upwards.

52 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2020

About the author

I was born in England to parents who were poor, honest, and loved nothing more than going for long walks, preferably in the rain. My education consisted of being forced to take written exams every five or six weeks, and eat school lunches of liver and onions-until I got to Oxford, where we had written exams every eight weeks and had lunches of pickled onions and Guinness.
This was quite enough to make me flee the country and seek gainful employment in Vermont, where I have lived for 24 years, writing a great deal, playing the guitar, carving endangered alphabets, and trying to grow good raspberries.