Linguistic Puzzles

Do you like solving puzzles? Playing with languages? Find out if you have the aptitudes for working with language communities around the world in linguistics, Bible translation, literacy and Scripture engagement.
Here are four printable linguistic challenges that were shared at some of our recent recruitment events along with the answer key (but no peeking until you have made your own attempts!)

Choose a challenge from below

Note that these challenges require a screen width of 1024 pixels or greater. Use tablets in landscape mode.

Canada Institute of Linguistics (CanIL) provides a wide range of applied linguistics training with specialties in descriptive linguistics, language survey, Bible translation, orthography development, literacy development, and language documentation. We offer undergraduate and graduate degree programs, an intensive 9-week summer course and a variety of training tracks.
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