Explore Linguistics

The Explore! Linguistics site is devoted to introducing the study of language and linguistics to high school students and others who may be interested. We have included here an array of activities that we hope visitors will find both interesting and educational. Browse and enjoy!

Linguistics Olympiad

The "Linguistic Olympiad" is a fun and educational problem-solving activity designed for secondary school students (ages 11 through 18). Students compete by solving puzzles based on real languages they have never learned.

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Ask a Linguist

Submit a question on language or linguistics to this national resource based at Eastern Michigan University!

Note to teachers: If you are an Oregon public school teacher and you have an interest in developing instructional activities on human languages or language more generally, we would be pleased to see if we could assist. Please contact us at: lingua@uoregon.edu for this purpose. We'll do our best to help out.

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