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
- LamaholotDeep Cut85points
- LamatukaDeep Cut85points
- LambadiDeep Cut85points
- LambichhongDeep Cut85points
- LamboyaDeep Cut85points
- LametDeep Cut85points
- LamkangDeep Cut85points
- Lampung ApiDeep Cut85points
- Lampung NyoDeep Cut85points
- Lanas LobuDeep Cut85points
- LanohDeep Cut85points
- Lao NagaDeep Cut85points
- Lao Sign LanguageDeep Cut85points
- LaopangDeep Cut85points
- Lapuyan SubanunDeep Cut85points
- Larantuka MalayDeep Cut85points
- Larike-WakasihuDeep Cut85points
- LasalimuDeep Cut85points
- LashiDeep Cut85points
- LasiDeep Cut85points
- LatalaDeep Cut85points
- LatuDeep Cut85points
- LaujeDeep Cut85points
- LautuDeep Cut85points
- LavenDeep Cut85points
- LawanganDeep Cut85points
- LawiDeep Cut85points
- LayakhaDeep Cut85points
- Ledo KailiDeep Cut85points
- LegenyemDeep Cut85points
- LelakDeep Cut85points
- LemetingDeep Cut85points
- LemolangDeep Cut85points
- LengiluDeep Cut85points
- LepchaDeep Cut85points
- LepkiDeep Cut85points
- Leti (Indonesia)Deep Cut85points
- Lewo ElengDeep Cut85points
- LewotobiDeep Cut85points
- LhokpuDeep Cut85points
- LhomiDeep Cut85points
- Li'oDeep Cut85points
- LiabukuDeep Cut85points
- Liana-SetiDeep Cut85points
- LiangmaiDeep Cut85points
- LikiDeep Cut85points
- LimbuDeep Cut85points
- Limos KalingaDeep Cut85points
- Lisabata-NunialiDeep Cut85points
- LiselaDeep 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.