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
- Coromandel Portuguese CreoleDeep Cut85points
- Cotabato ManoboDeep Cut85points
- CuaDeep Cut85points
- CuyononDeep Cut85points
- Da'a KailiDeep Cut85points
- Daai ChinDeep Cut85points
- DabeDeep Cut85points
- Dai (Babar)Deep Cut85points
- DakkaDeep Cut85points
- DakpaDeep Cut85points
- DakshinatyaDeep Cut85points
- DamalDeep Cut85points
- Daman and Diu Portuguese CreoleDeep Cut85points
- DameliDeep Cut85points
- DampelasDeep Cut85points
- DanauDeep Cut85points
- Dandami MariaDeep Cut85points
- Dangaura TharuDeep Cut85points
- DanuwarDeep Cut85points
- Dao (Papua)Deep Cut85points
- DaraiDeep Cut85points
- DarlongDeep Cut85points
- DarmaDeep Cut85points
- Daro-Matu MelanauDeep Cut85points
- DavawenyoDeep Cut85points
- Dawera-DaweloorDeep Cut85points
- Dawik KuiDeep Cut85points
- Dela-OenaleDeep Cut85points
- DemDeep Cut85points
- DemisaDeep Cut85points
- DemtaDeep Cut85points
- DengkaDeep Cut85points
- DeoriDeep Cut85points
- Dera (Indonesia)Deep Cut85points
- DesiyaDeep Cut85points
- Dhadkai Sign LanguageDeep Cut85points
- DhankiDeep Cut85points
- DhaoDeep Cut85points
- DhatkiDeep Cut85points
- DhimalDeep Cut85points
- Dhodia-KuknaDeep Cut85points
- DhundariDeep Cut85points
- Dibabawon ManoboDeep Cut85points
- Dicamay AgtaDeep Cut85points
- Dili MalayDeep Cut85points
- DimasaDeep Cut85points
- Dinapigue AgtaDeep Cut85points
- DiuweDeep Cut85points
- DobelDeep Cut85points
- DogriDeep 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.