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
- Odra PrakritDeep Cut85points
- OinamDeep Cut85points
- OirataDeep Cut85points
- Oko-JuwoiDeep Cut85points
- OkolodDeep Cut85points
- Old Bangkok Sign LanguageDeep Cut85points
- Old BurmeseDeep Cut85points
- Old ChamDeep Cut85points
- Old JavaneseDeep Cut85points
- Old KannadaDeep Cut85points
- Old KhmerDeep Cut85points
- Old MalayDeep Cut85points
- Old MarathiDeep Cut85points
- Old MonDeep Cut85points
- Old SundaneseDeep Cut85points
- Old TamilDeep Cut85points
- Old TeluguDeep Cut85points
- Ong-IrDeep Cut85points
- OngeDeep Cut85points
- OninDeep Cut85points
- Onin PidginDeep Cut85points
- Onya DaratDeep Cut85points
- Orang KanaqDeep Cut85points
- Orang SeletarDeep Cut85points
- Oraon SadriDeep Cut85points
- OrmuDeep Cut85points
- OrmuriDeep Cut85points
- OryaDeep Cut85points
- OsingDeep Cut85points
- Ot DanumDeep Cut85points
- OyDeep Cut85points
- Pa'ODeep Cut85points
- PacohDeep Cut85points
- PadoeDeep Cut85points
- PaguDeep Cut85points
- Pahari KinnauriDeep Cut85points
- Pahari NewariDeep Cut85points
- Pahari-PothwariDeep Cut85points
- PaishachiDeep Cut85points
- PaiteDeep Cut85points
- Pakistan Sign LanguageDeep Cut85points
- Pakpak BatakDeep Cut85points
- PakuDeep Cut85points
- Paku KarenDeep Cut85points
- Palawan BatakDeep Cut85points
- PaliyanDeep Cut85points
- Palu'eDeep Cut85points
- PaluanDeep Cut85points
- PalulaDeep Cut85points
- PalumataDeep 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.