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
- LoarkiDeep Cut85points
- LodhiDeep Cut85points
- LohorungDeep Cut85points
- LolaDeep Cut85points
- LolakDeep Cut85points
- LoleDeep Cut85points
- Loloda-LabaDeep Cut85points
- LoncongDeep Cut85points
- Long PhuriDeep Cut85points
- LorangDeep Cut85points
- LothaDeep Cut85points
- LotudDeep Cut85points
- LounDeep Cut85points
- LowaDeep Cut85points
- Lower Grand Valley DaniDeep Cut85points
- Lower Ta'oihDeep Cut85points
- LuangDeep Cut85points
- LubankiDeep Cut85points
- LubuDeep Cut85points
- Lubuagan KalingaDeep Cut85points
- Luhu-PiruDeep Cut85points
- LumaDeep Cut85points
- Lumba-YakkhaDeep Cut85points
- LunanakhaDeep Cut85points
- LundayehDeep Cut85points
- LyngngamDeep Cut85points
- Ma'anyanDeep Cut85points
- MaaDeep Cut85points
- Maba (Indonesia)Deep Cut85points
- Mabaka Valley KalingaDeep Cut85points
- Madukayang KalingaDeep Cut85points
- Maeng ItnegDeep Cut85points
- Mag-Anchi AytaDeep Cut85points
- Mag-Indi AytaDeep Cut85points
- Magadhi PrakritDeep Cut85points
- MagahiDeep Cut85points
- MagarDeep Cut85points
- MaguindanaoDeep Cut85points
- Mah MeriDeep Cut85points
- MahaliDeep Cut85points
- Maharashtri PrakritDeep Cut85points
- Mahasu PahariDeep Cut85points
- MairasiDeep Cut85points
- Maiwa (Indonesia)Deep Cut85points
- MajhiDeep Cut85points
- MajhwarDeep Cut85points
- MakasaeDeep Cut85points
- Makassar MalayDeep Cut85points
- MakassareseDeep Cut85points
- MaklewDeep 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.