Sunday, August 17, 2014

Hello everyone!

This is the official blog of the International Linguistics Olympiad. 

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If you want to talk about the contest anywhere, we suggest using the hashtag "ioling".

Linguistic Olympiads are science competition for students of secondary schools in lots of different countries, they all compete in there national contests and then we all meet in the summer for the big international competition. This years contest in Beijing recently finished. The problems are all based on insights of linguistics,  - why don't you just have a look-se
It's a very cool contest, one of the cool things about it is that everyone competes in different languages. The problem set and the Jury's correcting work is all multilingual. You can read more about that here.

You can learn more about the contest and see old problems at our regular web page, ioling.org.

The contest of 2015 will take place in Bulgaria, you can read more about the local arrangements at their official web page and Facebook page!