Hungarian students win silver medals at linguistics International Student Olympiad
Hungarian school students have won two silver medals at the 21st International Linguistics Olympiad in held in Brasilia between July 23 and 31.
Individuals and teams from 38 countries competed, and this year 11th grader Máté Gergely Virág (Eötvös József High School) and Rudolf Virág (Budapest Fazekas Mihály High School), who graduated this year, each won a medal, the HUN-REN Linguistics Research Center said on Saturday.
Tasks involved working out the operating principle of five rare languages, such as Koryak of Chukotko-Kamchatkan language family and Yanyuwa of the Australian Aboriginal Pama-Nyungan family, while teams were given a lexicostatistical task.
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