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
- SaluanDeep Cut85points
- Samar Sign LanguageDeep Cut85points
- SamarokenaDeep Cut85points
- SambalpuriDeep Cut85points
- SampangDeep Cut85points
- SamtaoDeep Cut85points
- SamvediDeep Cut85points
- SangarDeep Cut85points
- SanggauDeep Cut85points
- SangilDeep Cut85points
- SangirDeep Cut85points
- SanglechiDeep Cut85points
- SangtamDeep Cut85points
- SansiDeep Cut85points
- SantaliDeep Cut85points
- SaparuaDeep Cut85points
- SaponiDeep Cut85points
- SapuanDeep Cut85points
- SarDeep Cut85points
- Sara Bakati'Deep Cut85points
- SaraikiDeep Cut85points
- Sarangani BlaanDeep Cut85points
- Sarangani ManoboDeep Cut85points
- SaraziDeep Cut85points
- SarghulamiDeep Cut85points
- SartangDeep Cut85points
- SaruduDeep Cut85points
- SasakDeep Cut85points
- SaurashtraDeep Cut85points
- SauriDeep Cut85points
- Sauria PahariaDeep Cut85points
- SauseDeep Cut85points
- SaviDeep Cut85points
- SawaiDeep Cut85points
- SaweruDeep Cut85points
- SawiDeep Cut85points
- SawilaDeep Cut85points
- SeberuangDeep Cut85points
- SebopDeep Cut85points
- SedangDeep Cut85points
- SedoaDeep Cut85points
- SegaiDeep Cut85points
- SegetDeep Cut85points
- Seit-KaitetuDeep Cut85points
- SekapanDeep Cut85points
- SekarDeep Cut85points
- SekeDeep Cut85points
- Seko PadangDeep Cut85points
- Seko TengahDeep Cut85points
- Selangor Sign LanguageDeep 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.