Details of IOL Problems By Years
The first IOL in 2003 was held in Borovets, Bulgaria. The five problems at the individual contest concerned Jacob Linzbach's "Transcendental algebra" writing system, Egyptian Arabic, Adyghe, and French. The team contest consisted of three problems, on Tocharian, the use of subscripts as indices, and on performative verbs. The problems (with solutions) are available in various languages online.
IOL 2 (2004) was held in Moscow, Russia. The five problems at the individual contest were in Kayapo, Latin, English, Lakhota and Chuvash. The team problem was in Armenian.
IOL 3 (2005) was held in Leiden, The Netherlands. The five problems at the individual contest were in Tzotzil, Lango, Mansi, Yoruba and Lithuanian. The team problem was in Figuig.
IOL 4 (2006) was held in Tartu, Estonia. The five problems at the individual contest were in Lakhota, Catalan, Khmer, Udihe and Ngoni (or Chingoni), a language spoken by the Ngoni people in Tanzania. The problems (with solutions) are available in various languages online.
IOL 5 (2007) was held in St. Petersburg, Russia. The five problems at the individual contest were in Braille, Movima, Georgian, Ndom, and correspondences between Turkish and Tatar. The team problem was in Hawaiian and focused on genealogical terms. Results are shown on the official web site. The problems (with solutions) are available in various languages at the same site.
IOL 6 (2008) was held in Sunny Beach (Slantchev Bryag), Bulgaria. The five individual problems were in Micmac, Old Norse poetry (specificially, drottkvætt), Drehu and Cemuhî correspondences, Copainalá Zoque, and Inuktitut. The team problem was about correspondences between Mandarin and Cantonese using the fanqie system. The problems (with solutions) are available in various languages online.
IOL 7 (2009) was held in Wrocław, Poland, from July 26 to 30. The subject matter of the five individual problems covered: numerals in the Sulka language, Maninka and Bamana languages in the N'Ko and Latin scripts, traditional Burmese names and their relation with dates of birth, stress position in Old Indic and the relation between grammar and morphology in classical Nahuatl. The team problem was in Vietnamese. The problems (with solutions) are available for download in various languages.
IOL 8 (2010) was held in Stockholm, Sweden, from July 19 to 23. The individual contest consisted of five problems covering: relations between various verb forms in Budukh, the Drehu counting system, Blissymbolics, mRNA coding, and the connection between Sursilvan and Engadine dialects in Romansh. The team problem involved translating extracts from a monolingual Mongolian dictionary. The problems (with solutions) are available in various languages online.
IOL 9 (2011) was held in Pittsburgh, USA, from July 25 to 30. The problems of the individual contest required reasoning about Faroese orthography, Menominee morphology, Vai syntax, Nahuatl semantics and the structure of the barcode language EAN-13. The team contest involved the rules and structure of Sanskrit poetry.
IOL 10 (2012) was held in Ljubljana, Slovenia, from July 29 to August 5. The five problems at the individual contest were in Dyirbal (Pama-Nyungan), Umbu-Ungu (Trans-New Guinea), Basque (Isolate), Teop (Austronesian), and Rotuman (Austronesian). The team problem was in Lao (Tai-Kadai).
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