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
- Dolakha NewarDeep Cut85points
- DolpoDeep Cut85points
- DomaakiDeep Cut85points
- DomariDeep Cut85points
- DombanoDeep Cut85points
- DondoDeep Cut85points
- DoteliDeep Cut85points
- DoutaiDeep Cut85points
- Dramili PrakritDeep Cut85points
- DuanoDeep Cut85points
- DubliDeep Cut85points
- DubuDeep Cut85points
- DuhumbiDeep Cut85points
- DumiDeep Cut85points
- DumpasDeep Cut85points
- DungmaliDeep Cut85points
- Dungra BhilDeep Cut85points
- Dupaninan AgtaDeep Cut85points
- DuraDeep Cut85points
- DuriDeep Cut85points
- DuriankereDeep Cut85points
- DuruwaDeep Cut85points
- DusnerDeep Cut85points
- Dusun DeyahDeep Cut85points
- Dusun MalangDeep Cut85points
- Dusun WituDeep Cut85points
- DuvleDeep Cut85points
- Duvle-Wano-PidginDeep Cut85points
- DzalakhaDeep Cut85points
- East BerawanDeep Cut85points
- East DamarDeep Cut85points
- East MakianDeep Cut85points
- East MaselaDeep Cut85points
- East TaranganDeep Cut85points
- East TusomDeep Cut85points
- Eastern AtadeiDeep Cut85points
- Eastern BruDeep Cut85points
- Eastern ChamDeep Cut85points
- Eastern Gorkha TamangDeep Cut85points
- Eastern KatuDeep Cut85points
- Eastern Khumi ChinDeep Cut85points
- Eastern LawaDeep Cut85points
- Eastern Lowland KenyahDeep Cut85points
- Eastern MagarDeep Cut85points
- Eastern MnongDeep Cut85points
- Eastern MuriaDeep Cut85points
- Eastern PenanDeep Cut85points
- Eastern PuroikDeep Cut85points
- Eastern SubanenDeep Cut85points
- Eastern TawbuidDeep 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.