International Linguistic Olympiad
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The International Linguistic Olympiad (ILO) is the youngest in the group of science olympiads. The setup differs from that of the other science olympiads, as both individual and team contests are on the program.
This olympiad furthers the field of mathematical and theoretical linguistics. Like all science olympiads, its problems are translated and completed in several languages and as such must be written to be free of any native language constraints. In practice, this is often difficult and competitors may gain some advantage if they are familiar with one or more of the language groups which are the subject of some of the assignments.
The individual contest consists 5 problems which must be solved in 6 hours. The problems are covering main fields of theoretical, mathematical and applied linguistics - Phonetics, Morphology, Semantics, etc.
The team contest consists of solving one problem (with the exception of ILO 1) which is extremely difficult and requires much work.
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