Krillion 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
- Maku'aDeep Cut85points
- Makuri NagaDeep Cut85points
- MakyamDeep Cut85points
- MalDeep Cut85points
- Mal PahariaDeep Cut85points
- Mala MalasarDeep Cut85points
- MalankuravanDeep Cut85points
- MalapandaramDeep Cut85points
- MalaryanDeep Cut85points
- MalasarDeep Cut85points
- MalavedanDeep Cut85points
- MalawegDeep Cut85points
- Malayic DayakDeep Cut85points
- Malaysian Sign LanguageDeep Cut85points
- Maldives Sign LanguageDeep Cut85points
- MalengDeep Cut85points
- MalimpungDeep Cut85points
- MalpandeDeep Cut85points
- MalviDeep Cut85points
- MamanwaDeep Cut85points
- MamasaDeep Cut85points
- MambaiDeep Cut85points
- MamboruDeep Cut85points
- MamujuDeep Cut85points
- Manado MalayDeep Cut85points
- ManangeDeep Cut85points
- MandaDeep Cut85points
- Mandailing BatakDeep Cut85points
- Mandalay Sign LanguageDeep Cut85points
- MandarDeep Cut85points
- MandayaDeep Cut85points
- MandealiDeep Cut85points
- ManderDeep Cut85points
- Mandobo AtasDeep Cut85points
- Mandobo BawahDeep Cut85points
- MangDeep Cut85points
- ManggaraiDeep Cut85points
- ManipaDeep Cut85points
- ManiqDeep Cut85points
- MankiyaliDeep Cut85points
- MannanDeep Cut85points
- ManombaiDeep Cut85points
- MansakaDeep Cut85points
- MansimDeep Cut85points
- MantsiDeep Cut85points
- Manumanaw KarenDeep Cut85points
- ManuselaDeep Cut85points
- MaoDeep Cut85points
- MapiaDeep Cut85points
- MapunDeep 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.