Promotional materials
Every year we produce some promotional materials with key information and dates for schools to distribute to teachers and students.
Training materials
This package of training materials has been developed for use in schools, to give an idea of the kind of problems students will encounter in the OzCLO competition, with some tips about how to handle them.
For more guidance on linguistics olympiad problems, their types, and how to go about solving them, we strongly recommend Vlad A. Neacșu’s book Linguistics Olympiad: Training guide which is available as a free pdf.
OzCLO students have also had a go at creating their own OzCLO-style problems, which make for great practice material.
Shall I compare thee to an Inuktitut Month? created by James Brew from Sydney Grammar School
Past papers
Click here to see the problems from previous years’ competitions.
Published books
The following books list many problems with their solutions. They are also excellent for training.
- Radev (ed). Puzzles in Logic, Languages and Computation: The Red Book. Springer, 2013. [link]
- Radev (ed). Puzzles in Logic, Languages and Computation: The Green Book. Springer, 2013. [link]
- Derzhanski. Linguistic Magic and Mystery. Union of Bulgarian Mathematicians, 2009. [link]
- Bellos. The Language Lover’s Puzzle Book. Faber, 2021. [link]
- Neacșu. Linguistics Olympiad: Training guide. Language Science Press, 2024 [link]
Linguistics resources
Lingthusiasm – a podcast that’s enthusiastic about linguistics. Outstanding podcast with over 100 episodes about all things linguistics e.g. A hundred reasons to be enthusiastic about linguistics, what is the oldest language? would speaking a common language lead to world peace? and So much more!
The All Ireland Linguistics Olympiad team have also created an online Linguistics course for High School students. You can work through the materials on your own, or if you’re a teacher you can use the materials in your classes.
A crash course in Linguistics – A whole linguistics course in 16 videos
High School Linguistics – a website for teachers interested in including more linguistics in their teachings, books, lesson ideas, activities, and more…
Linguistics Roadshow – An excellent resource with teacher resources, activities, information about linguistics, how to study linguistics in Australia, and so many cool and interesting topics like Conlangs, How do languages evolve?, Mapping word variation around Australia… and so much more!
The Lingthusiasm crew Lauren Gawne and Gretchen McCulloch have also put together a list of 101 linguistics resources – podcasts, books, movies, games, and so so much more (including other lists of resources. Yes it’s lists within lists within lists)!
Superlinguo – A blog for those who like and use language. More lists of linguistics books, resources, and more… An amazing collection of 80 interviews with people who studied linguistics to show you some of the places it can take you. A gift guide for what to get the linguistics loving person in your life :). And a brilliant collection of blog posts about things such as gesturing in a second language, the etymology of Kangaroo, and constructing a new language.
50 words project – 50 words from nearly 100 Australian Indigenous language provided by community members
My grandmother’s lingo – a beautiful game which teaches you some Marra
And just a bit of fun – an art project showing off some Korean mimetics