Recorded answers
1,966 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 1,966
- GhaleDeep Cut85points
- Ghandruk Sign LanguageDeep Cut85points
- GheraDeep Cut85points
- GianganDeep Cut85points
- Goa Portuguese CreoleDeep Cut85points
- GoariaDeep Cut85points
- GodwariDeep Cut85points
- GondiDeep Cut85points
- GongdukDeep Cut85points
- GorapDeep Cut85points
- GorontaloDeep Cut85points
- Gorum-ParengaDeep Cut85points
- GowroDeep Cut85points
- GrangaliDeep Cut85points
- Great AndamaneseDeep Cut85points
- GresiDeep Cut85points
- GujariDeep Cut85points
- GurgulaDeep Cut85points
- Gurjar ApabhraṃśaDeep Cut85points
- GurungDeep Cut85points
- HabuDeep Cut85points
- Haflong HindiDeep Cut85points
- Haiphong Sign LanguageDeep Cut85points
- HajiDeep Cut85points
- HajongDeep Cut85points
- Hakha ChinDeep Cut85points
- HalamDeep Cut85points
- HalangDeep Cut85points
- Halang DoanDeep Cut85points
- HalbiDeep Cut85points
- HamapDeep Cut85points
- Hanoi Sign LanguageDeep Cut85points
- Hanunó'oDeep Cut85points
- HarappanDeep Cut85points
- HarautiDeep Cut85points
- HaroiDeep Cut85points
- HarukuDeep Cut85points
- HaryanviDeep Cut85points
- HatamDeep Cut85points
- Hatang KayiDeep Cut85points
- HawuDeep Cut85points
- HayuDeep Cut85points
- HelongDeep Cut85points
- HigaononDeep Cut85points
- Highland KonjoDeep Cut85points
- HindkoDeep Cut85points
- HinduriDeep Cut85points
- HituDeep Cut85points
- HmarDeep Cut85points
- HoDeep 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.