Krillion Recorded answers
1,965 recorded answers
How to approach it
The workable method is to build a tiered list before committing to anything. Begin with the national and regional standards of the region, since those are the answers most solvers reach for first and they establish that the category is sound. Then move to recognised minority languages attached to particular provinces, islands and river systems, using an alphabetical sweep so no branch of the family map gets skipped. After that, push into the long tail of community-level varieties, checking each candidate against a simple test: is the documented homeland inside the region, and is the variety named as a language rather than a dialect of something already listed? Languages carried in from other continents fail that test and should be discarded early.
Get a hint
Start with the major national and regional standards you already associate with this part of the world, then work outward toward recognised minority tongues.
A little more
Beyond the well-known ones sit hundreds of smaller recognised varieties, including sign languages, creoles and trade languages attached to particular islands and river valleys.
One step further
The deepest layer is the long tail of community-level speech varieties, often documented by a single survey entry, whose names rarely appear outside linguistic catalogues.
Reveal answers 1,965
- KusundaOne in a Krillion100points
- 'OlekhaDeep Cut85points
- A-PucikwarDeep Cut85points
- Abai SungaiDeep Cut85points
- Abai Tubu-Abai SembuakDeep Cut85points
- AbawiriDeep Cut85points
- Abenlen AytaDeep Cut85points
- AbhiriDeep Cut85points
- AbinomnDeep Cut85points
- AbuiDeep Cut85points
- AbunDeep Cut85points
- AdangDeep Cut85points
- AdasenDeep Cut85points
- AdiDeep Cut85points
- Adilabad GondiDeep Cut85points
- Adivasi OdiaDeep Cut85points
- Adiwasi GarasiaDeep Cut85points
- AdonaraDeep Cut85points
- AerDeep Cut85points
- Afghan Sign LanguageDeep Cut85points
- AgariyaDeep Cut85points
- AghuDeep Cut85points
- Agta-PahananDeep Cut85points
- Agusan ManoboDeep Cut85points
- AgutaynenDeep Cut85points
- Aheri GondiDeep Cut85points
- Ahin-Kayapa KalanguyaDeep Cut85points
- AhomDeep Cut85points
- AimolDeep Cut85points
- Air MatoaDeep Cut85points
- AiroranDeep Cut85points
- Aka-BeaDeep Cut85points
- Aka-BoDeep Cut85points
- Aka-CariDeep Cut85points
- Aka-JeruDeep Cut85points
- Aka-KedeDeep Cut85points
- Aka-KolDeep Cut85points
- Aka-KoraDeep Cut85points
- Akar-BaleDeep Cut85points
- AklanonDeep Cut85points
- Alabat Island AgtaDeep Cut85points
- AlakDeep Cut85points
- AlanganDeep Cut85points
- Alipur Sign LanguageDeep Cut85points
- AllarDeep Cut85points
- Alor MalayDeep Cut85points
- AloreseDeep Cut85points
- Alu KurumbaDeep Cut85points
- AluneDeep Cut85points
- AmahaiDeep Cut85points
Why these answers count
Scoring on this board tracks obscurity rather than fame, and the reveal makes that plain: of roughly two thousand accepted entries, almost all landed at 85 points, with a smaller band at 60 and exactly one at 100. The 85-point mass is where the catalogue answers live, small documented speech communities such as Abai Sungai, Abenlen Ayta or Adang, each real but rarely named outside survey lists. Anything a general solver would offer first, a national standard or a widely taught regional tongue, falls into the low band, because the puzzle rewards the opposite of recognition. The single 100-point entry, Kusunda, sits at the extreme end: an isolate with almost no speaker base and no everyday visibility, so it was presumably named by very few players. Practical lesson: the more local, the more points, and entries tied to one island, valley or signing community beat anything with a wide readership.