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Russian schoolchildren have won four medals at the International Olympiad in Linguistics, which was held in Bulgaria from July, 21 to July, 29, Uchitelskaya Gazeta reports. The Olympics took place for the 20th time, teams from more than 30 countries participated in it. Representatives of Russia showed the highest average score of the participants.
The Olympiad consisted of two rounds. In the first, individual, schoolchildren were offered five tasks, such rare languages as suppire, apurinan and murrin-pata served as the material. Young linguists needed, for example, to translate sentences from an unknown language, form verb forms, or understand numerals.
In the second round, the teams solved a linguistic problem, which, as a rule, does not have a complete solution. The victory was awarded to those who better than others understood the structure of the Murrin-Pata language. The students had to establish hundreds of correspondences between foreign words and their translations, which were provided to them separately.
Muscovite Eleonora Stepanova and Petersburger Artyom Boyko won the gold medal. Two more Muscovites won silver and bronze - Victoria Zubkova and Alexander Shlykov, respectively.
The International Olympiad in Linguistics has been held since 2003. Russia was represented by the winners and prize-winners of the All-Russian Olympiad for schoolchildren in the Russian language, the Moscow Traditional Olympiad in Linguistics and the medalists of the international Olympiad last season.
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