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
- Ngkontar BaediDeep Cut85points
- Ngkontar NgkolmpuDeep Cut85points
- NgochangDeep Cut85points
- NguônDeep Cut85points
- NiasDeep Cut85points
- NihaliDeep Cut85points
- NilaDeep Cut85points
- NimadiDeep Cut85points
- NimboranDeep Cut85points
- Ninia YaliDeep Cut85points
- NipsanDeep Cut85points
- Nisa-AnasiDeep Cut85points
- NoakhaillaDeep Cut85points
- NocteDeep Cut85points
- NoiriDeep Cut85points
- North AwyuDeep Cut85points
- North BabarDeep Cut85points
- North KamrauDeep Cut85points
- North Moluccan MalayDeep Cut85points
- North MuyuDeep Cut85points
- North NuauluDeep Cut85points
- North-Central Tangkhul NagaDeep Cut85points
- Northeast PashayiDeep Cut85points
- Northern AltaDeep Cut85points
- Northern BinukidnonDeep Cut85points
- Northern Catanduanes BicolanoDeep Cut85points
- Northern GondiDeep Cut85points
- Northern KankanayDeep Cut85points
- Northern KatangDeep Cut85points
- Northern KhmerDeep Cut85points
- Northern RengmaDeep Cut85points
- Northern RoglaiDeep Cut85points
- Northern SubanenDeep Cut85points
- Northern Tangkhul NagaDeep Cut85points
- Northern TidungDeep Cut85points
- Northwest PashayiDeep Cut85points
- Northwestern KolamiDeep Cut85points
- Northwestern TamangDeep Cut85points
- NubriDeep Cut85points
- Nusa LautDeep Cut85points
- Nyah KurDeep Cut85points
- NyaheunDeep Cut85points
- NyawDeep Cut85points
- NyenkhaDeep Cut85points
- NyeuDeep Cut85points
- NyishiDeep Cut85points
- O'duDeep Cut85points
- Obo ManoboDeep Cut85points
- ObokuitaiDeep Cut85points
- OdDeep 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.