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Irish IOL Participants 2023

18 July 2023

AILO Winners 2023

Faye Murphy Uncategorised AILO Winners 0

Year	Prize	Name	School	Note
2023	AILO Champion	Naoise Sheridan	Tullamore College	IOL Team
	2nd Place	Finn Wallace	CBC Monkstown	IOL Team
	3rd Place	Paddy Clancy	St. Vincent’s Castleknock	IOL Team
	4th Place	Megan Clancy	Ursuline Secondary School	IOL Team

2023	Junior Champion	Michael Costello	St.Kilian’s Deutsche School	7th Overall
	2nd Place	Gráinne Scott	Presentation Community College
	3rd Place	Daniel Scally	Tullamore College
	4th Place	Oisín Sheridan	Tullamore College

2023	Team Winners	Victoria Gulelauri	St.Kilian’s Deutsche School
		Eliska Dvorakova
		Michael Costello
		Nathan Raffelt Smyth

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23 June 2023

IOL 2023

Faye Murphy Uncategorised International Linguistic Olympiad* 0

IOL 2023

The 4 members of the Irish team who will represent Ireland at the 20th anniversary IOL in Bansko, Bulgaria are (left to right) :

Paddy Clancy St Vincent’s Castleknock, Dublin
Naoise Sheridan Tullamore College,Offaly

Megan Boland Ursuline Secondary School, Thurles, Tipperary
Finn Wallace CBC Monkstown, Dublin

28 July 2023: Paddy Clancy has taken home an honourable mention from the International Linguistics Olympiad for the Irish team which took place in Bansko, Bulgaria this week.

AILO 2023 Participants pose for photo with signs

23 June 2023

AILO Sample Puzzles

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Here you can find all sample sets to help you practice for AILO

The sets are categorised by theme

Morphology
1. As Easy as 2-3-5 and As Easy as 2-3-5 Solution (Japanese)
2. I Found and I was Happy and I Found and I was Happy Solution (Somali)
3. Kairak Verb Forms and Kairak Verb Forms Solution (Kairak Papa New Guinea)
4. Zuni and Zuni Solution (Zuni Native American)
5. As easy as one, two, three (again) and As easy as one, two, three (again) Solution (Slovenian)
6. IIokano and IIokano Solution (Ilokano (Philippines))
7. Finished with Finnish and Finished with Finnish Solution (Finnish)
8. By hand and foot in Murrinhpatha and By hand and foot in Murrinhpatha Solution (Murrinhpatha (Australia))

Phonology
1. Maori Loanwords and Maori Loanwords Solution (Maori)
2. What would Sir Roy Say and What would Sir Roy say Solution (English Dialect)
3. Trilingual Characters and Trilingual Characters Solution (Chinese/Japanese/Korean)
4. It’s all Greek to me and It’s all Greek to me Solution (Ancient Greek/Modern Greek/English)
5. Malteaser and Malteaser Solution (Maltese)
6. Possible Evenki Words and Possible Evenki Words Solution (Evenki (Mongolia/China))
7. Pidgin not pigeon and Pidgin not Pidgeon Solution (Cameroonian Pidgin English) (Involves elements of Word Formation)

Syntax
1. Ye Olde English Problem and Ye Olde English Problem Solution (Old English)
2. Making a mark in Choctaw and Making a mark in Choctaw Solution (Choctaw (Native American)
3. Basqing in the Sun and Basqing in the Sun Solution (Basque)
4. Turkish Bath Time and Turkish Bath Time Solution (Turkish)
5. The house can’t eat you and The house can’t eat you Solution (Nung (Vietnam))
6. Learning Yidiny and Learning Yidiny Solution (Yidiny (Australia)
7. Hungarian Rocks and Hungarian Rocks Solution (Hungarian)
8. A case of Pali and A case of Pali Solution (Pali (Ancient India)
9. Up the Creek for Firewood and Up the Creek for Firewood Solution (Pitjantjatjara (Australia))
10. Do you speak Ndebele and Do you speak Ndebele Solution (Ndebele (Zimbabwe))
11. Lopit or hate it and Lopit or hate it Solution (Lopit (Sudan))
12. Watch that cow and Watch that cow Solution (Hebrew)
13. Georgias always on the mind 2 and Georgias always on the mind 2 Solution (Georgian) (Includes elements of Writing System)
14. Lalana and Lalana Solution and Extra Lalana solution Example (Lalana Native Mexican)

Word Formation
1. People and Places and People and Places Solution (Japanese)
2. Adam Peterson’s Grandmother and Adam Peterson’s Grandmother Solution (Slovenian)
3. German Mix n Match and German Mix n Match Solution (German)
4. Pidgin not pigeon and Pidgin not Pidgeon Solution (Cameroonian Pidgin English) (Includes elements of Phonology)
5. The Curragh of Kildare and The Curragh of Kildare Solution (Irish/English)

Writing System
1. Georgias always on the mind 2 and Georgias always on the mind 2 Solution (Involves elements of Syntax) (Georgian)
2. Elder Futhark Runes and Elder Futhark Runes Solution (Old Norse)
3. Read and Write Nepali and Read and Write Nepali Solution (Nepali)
4. Malay and Malay Solution (Malay)
5. Lontara and Lontara Solution (Buginese (Indonesia))
6. Cippus Abellanus and Cippus Abellanus Solution (Oscan (related to Latin))
7. Writing up in Hanunó’o and Writing up in Hanunó’o Solution (Hanunó’o (Philippines))
8. Visible speech and Visible speech Solution (English)
9. Phàasàa and Pháasaă and Phàasàa and Pháasaă Solution (Shan/Lao (South East Asia))

Grammar Formalism
1. Transitions and Transitions Solution

Morphosyntax
1. Free the Friulian Three and Free the Friulian Three Solution (Friulian related to Italian)
2. Big dog, old bull, strong horse and Big dog, old bull, strong horse Solution (Danish/Swedish)

Counting System and Notation
1. Palmyrene and Palmyrene Solution (Palmyrene (ancient Aramaic))

Telling the Time
1. What’s the Time in Tallinn and What’s the Time in Tallinn Solution

Kinship Terms
1. Hawaiian and Hawaiian Solution (Hawaiian)

Morpho-phonemics
1. Harmongolian and Harmongolian Solution (Mongolian)

Funny cartoon about language acquisition

23 June 2023

Topic 6 Language Acquisition

Faye Murphy Uncategorised Transition Year Linguistics Module 0

Topic 6 Language Acquisition

Topic 6 Language Acquisition PowerPoint

Topic 6 Language Acquisition Overview PDF

6.1 Worksheet Language Acquisition

6.2 Worksheet First Language Acquisition

6.3 Worksheet 6.3: Second Language Acquisition

6.1(6.3.1) We are all Molistic and Solution

Machine Translation Cartoon

23 June 2023

Topic 10 Machine Translation

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Topic 10 Machine Translation

Topic 10 Machine Translation PowerPoint

Topic 10 Machine Translation Overview PDF

10.1 Worksheet: Parallel Texts

10.3(10.2) Running on MT Puzzle and Solution

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23 June 2023

Topic 9 Psycholinguistics and Neurolinguistics

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Topic 9 Psycholinguistics and Neurolinguistics

Topic 9 Psycholinguistics and Neurolinguistics PowerPoint

Topic 9 Psycholinguistics and Neurolinguistics Overview PDF

9.1 Worksheet : SLI/DLD Video

9.2 Worksheet: Williams Syndrome

9.3 Worksheet: Broca’s and Wernicke’s Aphasia

Morphology Cartoon

23 June 2023

Topic 7 Morphology

Faye Murphy Uncategorised Transition Year Linguistics Module 0

Topic 7 Morphology

Topic 7 Morphology PowerPoint

Topic 7 Morphology Overview PDF

7.1 Worksheet Identifying Morphemes

7.2 Worksheet Stages of children’s language production

7.3 Maltese Puzzle and Solution

Funny Grant Application

23 June 2023

Topic 5 Writing Systems

Faye Murphy Uncategorised Transition Year Linguistics Module 0

Topic 5 Writing Systems

Topic 5 Writing Systems PowerPoint

Topic 5 Writing Systems Overview PDF

5.1 Chinese Football and Solution

5.1.1 Phoenician Puzzle and Solution

5.2 Worksheet Ogham Writing System

5.3 Elder Futhark Runes puzzle and Solution

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