Olympiad beginning on the opening of the Olympic Games for the summer sports. The first modern Olympiad began in 1896, the second in 1900, and so on (the 31st began in 2016: see the Olympic Charter). The ancient and modern Olympiads would have synchronised had there been a year zero between the Olympiad of 4 BC and the one of 4 AD. But as the Gregorian calendar goes directly from 1 BC to 1 AD, the ancient Olympic cycle now lags the modern cycle by one year. An ancient Olympiad was a period of four years grouped together, counting inclusively as
International Linguistics Olympiad The team problem examined phonological correspondences among the three Jê languages Mẽbêngôkre, Xavante and Krĩkatí. IOL 17 will be held from July 29 to August 2, 2019 at the Hankuk University of Foreign Studies in Yongin, South Korea. The different editions of IOL can be summarized on the following table: International Linguistics Olympiad The International Linguistics Olympiad (IOL) is the fourth newest of a group of twelve International Science Olympiads. Its abbreviation IOL is deliberately chosen not to correspond to the name of the organization in any particular language, and member organizations are free to choose for themselves how to