Intellectual Olympiad in Native Language - 2026 ongoing

Subject: Native Language
Level: XII
Category: student
Quiz questions: in English
Example question: Which statement best captures the distinction between a phoneme and an allophone in a language’s sound system? A phoneme is always a written symbol, whereas an allophone is always spoken., An allophone changes lexical meaning, whereas a phoneme never does., A phoneme can occur only in stressed syllables, whereas an allophone occurs only in unstressed syllables., A phoneme is a contrastive sound category, while an allophone is a context-dependent realization of that category.