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
- ChairelDeep Cut85points
- ChakDeep Cut85points
- ChakmaDeep Cut85points
- ChakpaDeep Cut85points
- ChaliDeep Cut85points
- ChallowDeep Cut85points
- ChambealiDeep Cut85points
- ChamlingDeep Cut85points
- ChandaliDeep Cut85points
- ChangDeep Cut85points
- ChangthangDeep Cut85points
- ChantyalDeep Cut85points
- ChaudangsiDeep Cut85points
- ChauraDeep Cut85points
- ChenDeep Cut85points
- ChenchuDeep Cut85points
- ChepangDeep Cut85points
- Chetty MalayDeep Cut85points
- ChewongDeep Cut85points
- ChhattisgarhiDeep Cut85points
- ChhilingDeep Cut85points
- ChhintangDeep Cut85points
- Chhitkul-RakchhamDeep Cut85points
- ChhulungDeep Cut85points
- Chiangmai Sign LanguageDeep Cut85points
- ChilissoDeep Cut85points
- ChinaliDeep Cut85points
- Chinbon ChinDeep Cut85points
- ChiruDeep Cut85points
- ChittagonianDeep Cut85points
- Chitwania TharuDeep Cut85points
- ChocangacakhaDeep Cut85points
- ChodriDeep Cut85points
- ChokriDeep Cut85points
- ChongDeep Cut85points
- ChotheDeep Cut85points
- ChrauDeep Cut85points
- ChruDeep Cut85points
- ChurahiDeep Cut85points
- ChứtDeep Cut85points
- Cia-CiaDeep Cut85points
- Cinamiguin ManoboDeep Cut85points
- CitakDeep Cut85points
- Classical NewarDeep Cut85points
- Coastal KonjoDeep Cut85points
- Coastal-Virac BikolDeep Cut85points
- Cochin Portuguese CreoleDeep Cut85points
- ColDeep Cut85points
- ConDeep Cut85points
- CốngDeep 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.