UKLO (United Kingdom Linguistics Olympiad) is a language-analysis competition for all ages. We create linguistics puzzles and run competitions for school children to encourage a lifelong interest in the world’s languages. Have a look at the support given to UKLO by media outlets, organisations, schools and universities

Add variety for your students with an additional subject that teaches them to make decisions carefully. The skills learnt by students are invaluable when it comes to making focused decisions for themselves and avoiding other distractions.

Four Levels of Difficulty

We offer the competition at four levels of difficulty for KS2 – KS5, and provide Gold, Silver and Bronze awards, as well as participation certificates, at each level.

Flexible Progression

Students can start at any level and progress to any level. Click here to register your students. Click here to see the different levels.

The highest scoring students proceed through a couple more rounds of testing and coaching before we present them for the International Linguistics Olympiad (IOL) where they compete against other countries. Click to see our IOL Results.

At a lower level of difficulty, a problem requires an analysis of presented data which allows the competitor to generalise and go beyond the data. But at higher levels, competitors have to not only make these analyses mentally, but also put them into words in an explicit explanation of how the underlying system works.

No fees for schools

The competition is for all ages and entirely free with no costs or additional fees for participants or schools, whether in the national competition, the training camp or the IOL. Registration is also free!