Krillion Recorded answers
123 recorded answers
How to approach it
Work outward from demography rather than prestige. Sketch the world's densest population belts, then list the speech communities inside each one, including those with no state of their own. Because the bar sits at ten million, size matters more than official recognition: a regional tongue inside a large country can clear it easily, and so can a trade language used mainly as a second language. Group candidates by continent and by family to avoid near-duplicates, then sort each group from largest to smallest. With a comfortable list in hand, spend your last guesses on the least obvious members of the biggest clusters, since those are exactly the ones a crowd tends to skip.
Get a hint
Start with the densely populated belts of Asia and Africa, then widen to Europe and the Americas; the bar is low enough that dozens of candidates exist on every continent.
A little more
Second-language and vehicular use counts, so include tongues that few people speak at home but millions rely on in markets, courts and schools.
One step further
Regional and minority languages inside large countries often clear the threshold alone, and older diaspora communities or crowded island states can add a few more names.
Reveal answers 123
- Indo-Pakistani Sign LanguageOne in a Krillion100points
- AkanDeep Cut85points
- AmharicDeep Cut85points
- AssameseDeep Cut85points
- AzerbaijaniDeep Cut85points
- BalochiDeep Cut85points
- BambaraDeep Cut85points
- BanjarDeep Cut85points
- BerberDeep Cut85points
- BhiliDeep Cut85points
- BhojpuriDeep Cut85points
- Cameroonian PidginDeep Cut85points
- CebuanoDeep Cut85points
- ChewaDeep Cut85points
- ChhattisgarhiDeep Cut85points
- ChittagonianDeep Cut85points
- DariDeep Cut85points
- DyulaDeep Cut85points
- FulaDeep Cut85points
- GanDeep Cut85points
- GujariDeep Cut85points
- HakkaDeep Cut85points
- HausaDeep Cut85points
- HiligaynonDeep Cut85points
- IbibioDeep Cut85points
- IlocanoDeep Cut85points
- JinDeep Cut85points
- KanuriDeep Cut85points
- KinyarwandaDeep Cut85points
- KirundiDeep Cut85points
- KitubaDeep Cut85points
- KongoDeep Cut85points
- LingalaDeep Cut85points
- Luba-KasaiDeep Cut85points
- LugandaDeep Cut85points
- MadureseDeep Cut85points
- MagahiDeep Cut85points
- MaithiliDeep Cut85points
- MalagasyDeep Cut85points
- MandingDeep Cut85points
- MarwariDeep Cut85points
- Min BeiDeep Cut85points
- Min DongDeep Cut85points
- MooréDeep Cut85points
- NagpuriDeep Cut85points
- Nigerian PidginDeep Cut85points
- Northern SothoDeep Cut85points
- OdiaDeep Cut85points
- OromoDeep Cut85points
- RajasthaniDeep Cut85points
Why these answers count
Points follow rarity inside the crowd's own answers. The lone 100 sat with Indo-Pakistani Sign Language, proof that an unexpected lane can lead the board precisely because almost nobody else scans it. The 85 band is the sweet spot of real but unglamorous: Akan, Amharic, Assamese, Azerbaijani, Balochi and Bambara sit there, each backed by millions of speakers yet easy to forget under time pressure. The 39 entries at 60 points were correct but crowded, the names that surface first for any given region. Picks that miss the ten-million mark, or that amount to dialect labels or invented systems, collect nothing. The practical reading is that breadth beats fame: a slightly obscure community with a genuinely large population outperforms a celebrated language that half the field writes down. And since 102 of the 123 recorded answers reached at least 60, the differentiator was nerve rather than knowledge.