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
- KarmarongDeep Cut85points
- Karo BatakDeep Cut85points
- Karon DoriDeep Cut85points
- KasiguraninDeep Cut85points
- KasongDeep Cut85points
- Kata KolokDeep Cut85points
- KatabanganDeep Cut85points
- Kathoriya TharuDeep Cut85points
- KatkariDeep Cut85points
- KatuaDeep Cut85points
- KaurDeep Cut85points
- Kaure-NarauDeep Cut85points
- KauweraDeep Cut85points
- KaweDeep Cut85points
- KayagarDeep Cut85points
- KayahDeep Cut85points
- KayanDeep Cut85points
- Kayan MahakamDeep Cut85points
- Kayan River KayanDeep Cut85points
- KayawDeep Cut85points
- KayeliDeep Cut85points
- KayongDeep Cut85points
- KayortDeep Cut85points
- KayupulauDeep Cut85points
- Kedah MalayDeep Cut85points
- KedangDeep Cut85points
- KederDeep Cut85points
- KehuDeep Cut85points
- KeiDeep Cut85points
- KelabitDeep Cut85points
- Kelantan-Pattani MalayDeep Cut85points
- Keley-i KallahanDeep Cut85points
- KemakDeep Cut85points
- KemberanoDeep Cut85points
- KembraDeep Cut85points
- KemtuikDeep Cut85points
- KenaboiDeep Cut85points
- Kendayan-BelanginDeep Cut85points
- Keningau MurutDeep Cut85points
- KeninjalDeep Cut85points
- KensiuDeep Cut85points
- KéoDeep Cut85points
- Kepo'Deep Cut85points
- KerehoDeep Cut85points
- KerinciDeep Cut85points
- KetengbanDeep Cut85points
- KetumDeep Cut85points
- KhahDeep Cut85points
- KhalingDeep Cut85points
- KhamDeep 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.