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International Linguistics Olympiad

Samples

If the puzzle on Ancient Greek below ?looks Greek to you?, don?t panic ? we
guarantee that no previous knowledge of Greek is necessary to solve it.

All of the information you need to solve the puzzles below is in the puzzles
themselves. All you need to add is some analytical reasoning and tricky
thinking.

Once you?ve mastered these puzzles from national-level competition, why not try
your skills against our past international-level problems? They?re difficult
enough to puzzle professional linguists? but still solvable by secondary-school
students.

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Easy Problems

 1. Georgian Countries
 2. Ancient Greek
 3. Aragonese
 4. Japanese Braille
 5. Lalana Chinantec
 6. Molistic
 7. Persian

Intermediate Problems

 1. Kazakh
 2. Taikyoku Sh?gi
 3. Tup? and Guaran?
 4. Inuktitut Numbers
 5. Basque Numbers
 6. Basque Kinship

Hard Problems

 1. Icelandic Kinship
 2. Manam
 3. Guaran? Verbs
 4. Aymara
 5. Toki Pona

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