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UKLO at the IOL
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UKLO at the IOL in numbers
9 Olympiads 52 competitors 13 teams 21 medals 12 honourable mentions 2 best solutions 2 team trophies 1 ‘blue vase’ 3 triple medallists 1 dream team
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UKLO at the IOL in places
Stockholm Pittsburgh Ljubljana Manchester Beijing Blagoevgrad Mysore Dublin
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UKLO at the IOL in medals
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UKLO at the IOL in Olympic scores
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UKLO at the IOL: Hall of fame …
2012 our first and only dream team – so far L to R Baichuan Li Melanie Duncan Tom White Omri Farraggi
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UKLO at the IOL: Hall of fame
2014 our first gold medal Ellie Warner Ellie is currently reading Linguistics at Cambridge
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UKLO at the IOL: Hall of fame
2014 our first gold medal Ellie Warner
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UKLO at the IOL: Hall of fame
Liam McKnight Triple gold medal winner 2015, 2016, 2017 Liam is eligible for the 2018 IOL
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UKLO at the IOL: Hall of fame
Sam Ahmed Triple gold medal winner 2015, 2016, 2017. Sam’s medal in 2017 was the top gold in the competition. Sam is now at Cambridge reading linguistics
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UKLO at the IOL: Hall of fame
World champions 2017 Alfie Ben Simi Ben Kamran Harry Sam Liam Vaughan Liow Hellsten Morris Sharifi Taylor Ahmed McKnight
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UKLO at the IOL: the Rosetta Disk
Languages of the World This is an archive of over 1,500 human languages assembled in the year C.E. Magnify 1,000 times to find over 13,000 pages of language documentation
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The Rosetta Disk – large version
On November 12, 02014, the European Space Agency Rosetta Mission, carrying on board a Rosetta Disk ... … successfully soft-landed its research craft "Philae" on Comet 67P / Churyumov-Gerasimenko
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The Rosetta Disk – wearable version
One side has instructions in eight different languages and scripts (Bahasa Indonesia, English, Hindi, Mandarin, Modern Standard Arabic, Spanish, Swahili, and Russian). The instructions translate into English as "Languages of the world: This is an archive of over 1,000 human languages assembled in the year C.E. Magnify 100 times to find over 1,000 pages of language documentation." Each instruction starts at a human-eye readable size, and then spirals inward around a globe graphic, ending at the microscopic scale.
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The Rosetta Disk – wearable version
The other side of the pendant contains the archive, with over 1,000 microscopic pages. (The original Rosetta Disk has over 1,500 languages and 13,000 pages of information) The Preamble to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (327 languages) Swadesh vocabulary lists assembled by the PanLex Project (719 languages) "The Clock of the Long Now" by Stewart Brand Updated diagrams for the 10,000 Year Clock
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The Rosetta Disk – website
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The Rosetta Disk – website
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The Rosetta Disk – website
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The Rosetta Disk – website
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The Rosetta Disk – website
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UKLO at the IOL: Hall of fame
World champions 2017 Alfie Ben Simi Ben Kamran Harry Sam Liam Vaughan Liow Hellsten Morris Sharifi Taylor Ahmed McKnight
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UKLO at the IOL
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