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
- MinangkabauDeep Cut85points
- MinokokDeep Cut85points
- MinriqDeep Cut85points
- MintilDeep Cut85points
- MisingDeep Cut85points
- Misool-Salawati Ma'yaDeep Cut85points
- MizoDeep Cut85points
- MlabriDeep Cut85points
- MlapDeep Cut85points
- Mobwa KarenDeep Cut85points
- ModangDeep Cut85points
- ModoleDeep Cut85points
- MogholiDeep Cut85points
- Moi (Indonesia)Deep Cut85points
- MokDeep Cut85points
- MokenDeep Cut85points
- MoklenDeep Cut85points
- MokselaDeep Cut85points
- MolbogDeep Cut85points
- MolofDeep Cut85points
- MomaDeep Cut85points
- MombumDeep Cut85points
- Momogo-Pupis-IrogoDeep Cut85points
- MomunaDeep Cut85points
- MongondowDeep Cut85points
- MoniDeep Cut85points
- MonomDeep Cut85points
- Monsang NagaDeep Cut85points
- Monumental PrakritDeep Cut85points
- Mor (Bomberai Peninsula)Deep Cut85points
- Mor (Mor Islands)Deep Cut85points
- MoraidDeep Cut85points
- MoranDeep Cut85points
- Mori AtasDeep Cut85points
- Mori BawahDeep Cut85points
- MoroneneDeep Cut85points
- Morop-DintereDeep Cut85points
- MoskonaDeep Cut85points
- Moyadan ItnegDeep Cut85points
- MoyonDeep Cut85points
- MpurDeep Cut85points
- Mro-Khimi ChinDeep Cut85points
- MruDeep Cut85points
- Mt. Iraya AgtaDeep Cut85points
- Mt. Iriga AgtaDeep Cut85points
- Muak Sa-aakDeep Cut85points
- MualangDeep Cut85points
- Mudhili GadabaDeep Cut85points
- Mudu KoragaDeep Cut85points
- MudugaDeep 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.