The IOL is one of 12 International Science Olympiads for secondary school students, and has been held annually since 2003. Each year, teams of young linguists from around the world gather and test their minds against the world's toughest puzzles in language and linguistics.
No prior knowledge of linguistics or languages is required: even the hardest problems require only your logical ability, patient work, and willingness to think around corners. Give some of our past problems a try!
Competition Process
Participate in the annual olympiad event where they sit for an exam to answer problems that can be related to all branches of linguistics, including phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, historical linguistics, sociolinguistics, computational linguistics, pragmatics, formal methods, corpus linguistics, etc.Students must be invited to participate by winning a spot on their national delegation at one of the National Linguistic Olympiads.
Judging Criteria
Students are scored based on the number of correct answers provided on the exams in the allotted time. National Teams are ranked by the scores of all 4 team participants.Participate
Website: http://www.ioling.org/
Managing Organization: ADAPT Centre for Digital Content Technology
Eligibility:
Students must be invited to participate by scoring in the top 4 members of a national delegation, at a National Linguistics Olympiad.
Students must be invited to participate by scoring in the top 4 members of a national delegation, at a National Linguistics Olympiad.