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Re:International Linguistics Olympiad – Sample Problems by hdesh on Friday January 21, 2022 @12:55PM (#30027227)
What's the criterion for choosing a language for the competition? I took a cursory glance and could not find any Indian language, which is unfortunate given the huge linguistic diversity in India.
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Re:International Linguistics Olympiad – Sample Problems by smarinov on Saturday January 22, 2022 @06:19PM (#30041829)
I think the only criterion is the presence of a person who was able to create an interesting and suitable problem for the target language and submitted it for inclusion in the IOL. :)

Also keep in mind that this is a link only to the sample problems. The actual problems by year had at least Old Indic and Sanskrit poetry: https://ioling.org/problems/by_year

Maybe also others I couldn't see. Also most probably (some/many? of) the national olympiads in linguistics for the participating countries in the IOL had some problems for Indo-Aryan languages at some level (local, regional, national) over the years. On this website we only see the problems for the international competition. I expect that at some point there will be more languages from more language families.

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