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
- Binongan ItnegDeep Cut85points
- BintaunaDeep Cut85points
- BintuluDeep Cut85points
- BirhorDeep Cut85points
- BiritaiDeep Cut85points
- Bishnupriya ManipuriDeep Cut85points
- BisuDeep Cut85points
- BitDeep Cut85points
- BlagarDeep Cut85points
- BlangDeep Cut85points
- Boano (Maluku)Deep Cut85points
- Boano (Sulawesi)Deep Cut85points
- BobongkoDeep Cut85points
- BobotDeep Cut85points
- BodoDeep Cut85points
- Bodo GadabaDeep Cut85points
- Bodo ParjaDeep Cut85points
- Bokar-RamoDeep Cut85points
- BolangoDeep Cut85points
- BolinaoDeep Cut85points
- BolonganDeep Cut85points
- Bombay Portuguese CreoleDeep Cut85points
- BondaDeep Cut85points
- BonerateDeep Cut85points
- BonerifDeep Cut85points
- BonggiDeep Cut85points
- BonggoDeep Cut85points
- BookanDeep Cut85points
- BoteDeep Cut85points
- Botolan SambalDeep Cut85points
- BrahuiDeep Cut85points
- Braj BhashaDeep Cut85points
- BraoDeep Cut85points
- BrokkatDeep Cut85points
- BrokpakeDeep Cut85points
- BrokskatDeep Cut85points
- Brooke's Point PalawanoDeep Cut85points
- Brunei Bisaya-DusunDeep Cut85points
- Bualkhaw ChinDeep Cut85points
- Budeh StiengDeep Cut85points
- Budong-BudongDeep Cut85points
- BugineseDeep Cut85points
- BugunDeep Cut85points
- BuhidDeep Cut85points
- Bukar-Sadung BidayuhDeep Cut85points
- BukatDeep Cut85points
- Bukit MalayDeep Cut85points
- BukitanDeep Cut85points
- BuksaDeep Cut85points
- Buli (Indonesia)Deep 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.