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
- KagayanenDeep Cut85points
- KaiboboDeep Cut85points
- KaidipangDeep Cut85points
- KaikadiDeep Cut85points
- KaikeDeep Cut85points
- KaimbulawaDeep Cut85points
- Kairui-MidikiDeep Cut85points
- KaisDeep Cut85points
- KaisanDeep Cut85points
- KaiyDeep Cut85points
- KajamanDeep Cut85points
- KakkalaDeep Cut85points
- KalabakanDeep Cut85points
- KalabraDeep Cut85points
- KalaganDeep Cut85points
- Kalaktang MonpaDeep Cut85points
- KalamangDeep Cut85points
- KalamiDeep Cut85points
- KalanadiDeep Cut85points
- KalaoDeep Cut85points
- KalashaDeep Cut85points
- KalkotiDeep Cut85points
- KalumpangDeep Cut85points
- KamangDeep Cut85points
- KamarDeep Cut85points
- KamarianDeep Cut85points
- KamaruDeep Cut85points
- Kamarupi PrakritDeep Cut85points
- KamayoDeep Cut85points
- KamberaDeep Cut85points
- KambojanDeep Cut85points
- Kamkata-viriDeep Cut85points
- KamoroDeep Cut85points
- KamtapuriDeep Cut85points
- KanashiDeep Cut85points
- KanaujiDeep Cut85points
- KangeanDeep Cut85points
- KangriDeep Cut85points
- KanikkaranDeep Cut85points
- KanjariDeep Cut85points
- KankanaeyDeep Cut85points
- Kannada KurumbaDeep Cut85points
- Kannur Indo-PortugueseDeep Cut85points
- Kanowit-Tanjong MelanauDeep Cut85points
- KaoDeep Cut85points
- KaporiDeep Cut85points
- KaptiauDeep Cut85points
- KaraoDeep Cut85points
- KarbiDeep Cut85points
- KareyDeep 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.