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
- Palya BareliDeep Cut85points
- PamonaDeep Cut85points
- Pamplona AttaDeep Cut85points
- PanasuanDeep Cut85points
- PancanaDeep Cut85points
- PanchparganiaDeep Cut85points
- PangkhuaDeep Cut85points
- Pangutaran SamaDeep Cut85points
- PangwaliDeep Cut85points
- PaniyaDeep Cut85points
- PanneiDeep Cut85points
- PaparDeep Cut85points
- PapasenaDeep Cut85points
- Papuan MalayDeep Cut85points
- PapumaDeep Cut85points
- ParachiDeep Cut85points
- ParananDeep Cut85points
- PardhanDeep Cut85points
- PardhiDeep Cut85points
- Parkari KoliDeep Cut85points
- Pass Valley YaliDeep Cut85points
- PataniDeep Cut85points
- PathiyaDeep Cut85points
- PattaniDeep Cut85points
- PattapuDeep Cut85points
- PaulohiDeep Cut85points
- Pauri BareliDeep Cut85points
- PauwiDeep Cut85points
- PearDeep Cut85points
- PekalDeep Cut85points
- Penang Sign LanguageDeep Cut85points
- PendauDeep Cut85points
- PengoDeep Cut85points
- PeraiDeep Cut85points
- Peranakan IndonesianDeep Cut85points
- Peripheral LembataDeep Cut85points
- PetjoDeep Cut85points
- PhalokDeep Cut85points
- Phana'Deep Cut85points
- PhangduwaliDeep Cut85points
- PhayengDeep Cut85points
- PhomDeep Cut85points
- Phong-KniangDeep Cut85points
- Phrae Pwo KarenDeep Cut85points
- Phu ThaiDeep Cut85points
- PhuanDeep Cut85points
- PhudagiDeep Cut85points
- PhunoiDeep Cut85points
- PhuongDeep Cut85points
- Pidgin Tukang BesiDeep 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.