PRIL · Syllabus

PRIL Syllabus 2026 — every subject & topic

The complete Panini Linguistics Olympiad syllabus: 8 subjects, 29 topics. Every topic links to free study notes, practice questions and topic-wise quizzes.

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Phonology and Phonetics

  • Sound Inventories
  • Phonological Alternations
  • Phonetic Transcription
  • Stress and Tone

Morphology

  • Affixation Patterns
  • Agglutinative Morphology
  • Fusional and Templatic Morphology
  • Case and Agreement
  • Verb Paradigms
  • Kinship Systems

Syntax

  • Word Order
  • Alignment Systems
  • Questions and Negation
  • Embedded Clauses
  • Sentence-Translation Matching

Semantics and Pragmatics

  • Lexical Semantics
  • Deixis and Reference
  • Compositional Meaning

Numeral Systems

  • Bases (Decimal, Vigesimal, etc.)
  • Numeral Composition Rules
  • Large Numbers and Counting

Writing Systems and Transliteration

  • Alphabets and Abjads
  • Abugidas and Syllabaries
  • Logographic Scripts
  • Transliteration Tasks

Historical and Comparative Linguistics

  • Cognate Identification
  • Regular Sound Change

Computational and Formal Linguistics

  • Formal Rule Inference
  • Ambiguity and Parsing

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