Krillion Recorded answers
1,965 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 1,965
- AmarasiDeep Cut85points
- AmbaiDeep Cut85points
- Ambala AytaDeep Cut85points
- AmbelDeep Cut85points
- AmbelauDeep Cut85points
- AmbermoDeep Cut85points
- Ambonese MalayDeep Cut85points
- Amganad IfugaoDeep Cut85points
- AmpanangDeep Cut85points
- Amri KarbiDeep Cut85points
- AnakalangDeep Cut85points
- AnalDeep Cut85points
- Andaman Creole HindiDeep Cut85points
- AndhDeep Cut85points
- AndioDeep Cut85points
- AndroDeep Cut85points
- AngamiDeep Cut85points
- Angami Naga Sign LanguageDeep Cut85points
- Angguruk YaliDeep Cut85points
- AngikaDeep Cut85points
- Angkola BatakDeep Cut85points
- AnsusDeep Cut85points
- Anu-HkongsoDeep Cut85points
- AoDeep Cut85points
- Aoheng-SeputanDeep Cut85points
- ApabhramshaDeep Cut85points
- ApataniDeep Cut85points
- AputaiDeep Cut85points
- Aralle-TabulahanDeep Cut85points
- AranadanDeep Cut85points
- Ardhamagadhi PrakritDeep Cut85points
- AremDeep Cut85points
- ArguniDeep Cut85points
- ArtaDeep Cut85points
- AsDeep Cut85points
- AshkunDeep Cut85points
- Asho ChinDeep Cut85points
- Ashokan PrakritDeep Cut85points
- AsiluluDeep Cut85points
- Asue AwyuDeep Cut85points
- AsuriDeep Cut85points
- AtaDeep Cut85points
- Ata ManoboDeep Cut85points
- AthpareDeep Cut85points
- AtiDeep Cut85points
- AtohwaimDeep Cut85points
- AtongDeep Cut85points
- Attapady KurumbaDeep Cut85points
- AuyeDeep Cut85points
- Avanti PrakritDeep 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.