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
- SelaruDeep Cut85points
- SelayarDeep Cut85points
- Selungai MurutDeep Cut85points
- SeluwasanDeep Cut85points
- SemaiDeep Cut85points
- Semaq BeriDeep Cut85points
- Sembakung MurutDeep Cut85points
- SemelaiDeep Cut85points
- SemimiDeep Cut85points
- SemnamDeep Cut85points
- SempanDeep Cut85points
- SenggiDeep Cut85points
- SengmaiDeep Cut85points
- SentaniDeep Cut85points
- SenthangDeep Cut85points
- SepaDeep Cut85points
- SeriliDeep Cut85points
- SeruDeep Cut85points
- SeruaDeep Cut85points
- Serudung MurutDeep Cut85points
- Serui-LautDeep Cut85points
- ShabariDeep Cut85points
- ShakariDeep Cut85points
- Shauraseni PrakritDeep Cut85points
- ShekhawatiDeep Cut85points
- ShenduDeep Cut85points
- SherdukpenDeep Cut85points
- ShinaDeep Cut85points
- SholagaDeep Cut85points
- ShompenDeep Cut85points
- ShumashtiDeep Cut85points
- ShumchoDeep Cut85points
- Shwe PalaungDeep Cut85points
- SiangDeep Cut85points
- Sibu MelanauDeep Cut85points
- SihanDeep Cut85points
- SikaDeep Cut85points
- SikaritaiDeep Cut85points
- SikkimeseDeep Cut85points
- SikuleDeep Cut85points
- SilimoDeep Cut85points
- Simalungun BatakDeep Cut85points
- SimeulueDeep Cut85points
- SimteDeep Cut85points
- Sindhi BhilDeep Cut85points
- Singapore Sign LanguageDeep Cut85points
- SingphoDeep Cut85points
- SirajiDeep Cut85points
- SirmauriDeep Cut85points
- Sizang ChinDeep 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.