Krillion Recorded answers
1,965 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 1,965
- AwadhiDeep Cut85points
- AwbonoDeep Cut85points
- AweraDeep Cut85points
- AwyiDeep Cut85points
- Baba MalayDeep Cut85points
- Bacanese MalayDeep Cut85points
- BactrianDeep Cut85points
- Bada (Indonesia)Deep Cut85points
- BadagaDeep Cut85points
- BadeshiDeep Cut85points
- BagheliDeep Cut85points
- BagriDeep Cut85points
- BagusaDeep Cut85points
- BahamDeep Cut85points
- BahauDeep Cut85points
- BahingDeep Cut85points
- BahlikiDeep Cut85points
- BahnarDeep Cut85points
- BahonsuaiDeep Cut85points
- BaikenoDeep Cut85points
- BakumpaiDeep Cut85points
- BalaesangDeep Cut85points
- BalangaoDeep Cut85points
- BalangingiDeep Cut85points
- BalantakDeep Cut85points
- Baliledu-BuawaDeep Cut85points
- Balinese MalayDeep Cut85points
- BaltiDeep Cut85points
- BambamDeep Cut85points
- Ban Khor Sign LanguageDeep Cut85points
- Banao ItnegDeep Cut85points
- Banda (Indonesia)Deep Cut85points
- Banda MalayDeep Cut85points
- BanggaiDeep Cut85points
- BangkaDeep Cut85points
- Bangla Sign LanguageDeep Cut85points
- BangruDeep Cut85points
- BanjarDeep Cut85points
- BankariyaDeep Cut85points
- BantangDeep Cut85points
- BantawaDeep Cut85points
- BantayanonDeep Cut85points
- BantikDeep Cut85points
- BantoanonDeep Cut85points
- BarakaiDeep Cut85points
- BaramDeep Cut85points
- Baram KayanDeep Cut85points
- BarapasiDeep Cut85points
- BarasDeep Cut85points
- BasapDeep 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.