Krillion 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
- Ho Chi Minh City Sign LanguageDeep Cut85points
- HobonganDeep Cut85points
- HoliyaDeep Cut85points
- HotiDeep Cut85points
- HponDeep Cut85points
- HrangkholDeep Cut85points
- HreDeep Cut85points
- HrusoDeep Cut85points
- HuauluDeep Cut85points
- Huay Hai Sign LanguageDeep Cut85points
- HukuminaDeep Cut85points
- HulungDeep Cut85points
- HumlaDeep Cut85points
- HungDeep Cut85points
- HuplaDeep Cut85points
- HyolmoDeep Cut85points
- I-WakDeep Cut85points
- IauDeep Cut85points
- IbaloiDeep Cut85points
- IbanDeep Cut85points
- IbanagDeep Cut85points
- IbatanDeep Cut85points
- IbuDeep Cut85points
- Ida'anDeep Cut85points
- IdatéDeep Cut85points
- IduDeep Cut85points
- IhaDeep Cut85points
- Iha-based PidginDeep Cut85points
- Ile ApeDeep Cut85points
- Ili'uunDeep Cut85points
- Ilianen ManoboDeep Cut85points
- IlongotDeep Cut85points
- ImroingDeep Cut85points
- InabaknonDeep Cut85points
- Indonesian BajauDeep Cut85points
- Indonesian Sign LanguageDeep Cut85points
- Indus KohistaniDeep Cut85points
- InkuDeep Cut85points
- Inland-Buhi-Daraga BikolDeep Cut85points
- Inlaod ItnegDeep Cut85points
- InonhanDeep Cut85points
- InpuiDeep Cut85points
- InthaDeep Cut85points
- IranunDeep Cut85points
- IrarutuDeep Cut85points
- IrayaDeep Cut85points
- IrulaDeep Cut85points
- Isarog AgtaDeep Cut85points
- IshkashimiDeep Cut85points
- IsinaiDeep 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.