NACLO 2025
By year, we completed the following problems in the Yale Linguistics NACLO coaching sessions:
- 2025: C, D, E, G, H
- 2024: A, C, F, H
- 2023: E, H
- 2022: H
- 2016: D
- 2014: D
Session 1 (2025-11-16)
| Problem | Type | Points | Difficulty1 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024R1A Holy Roman Shorthand | Writing system | 10 | Easy |
| 2025R1E Around the World in Armenian | Writing system | 15 | Easy+ |
| 2024R1F Paiwan in Progress | Morphology | 10 | Easy+ |
| 2023R1E Bengalese Finch Song | Computational | 5 | Medium |
| 2023R1H My Grandmother and I | Semantics | 15 | Medium |
| 2025R1H There Is Another Hand | Number system + Morphology | 15 | Medium+ |
| 2016R1D That's an order! | Phrase translation + Semantics | 15(?) | Medium+ |
Session 2 (2025-12-07)
| Problem | Type | Points | Difficulty |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024R1C Happy Birthday! | Puzzle | 10 | Easy |
| 2014R1D Wheel of Fortune Cookies | Puzzle | 15 | Easy+ |
| 2022R1H From Soup to Nuts | Phrase translation + Morphology | 15 | Medium+ |
| 2024R1H Evidentially, My Dear Tariana | Semantics | 15 | Medium+ |
| 2025R1G The Little Dog That Could Read | Phrase translation | 15 | Medium |
| 2025R1C Color Me Confused | Semantics + Morphology | 15 | Medium+ |
| 2025R1D Let's Pivot! | Computational | 10 | Easy+ |
Footnotes
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I gauge the difficulty myself but I'm bad at this. ↩