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
- YorubaRare60points
- ZuluRare60points
- CantoneseSchooler30points
- DutchSchooler30points
- GreekSchooler30points
- ItalianSchooler30points
- KoreanSchooler30points
- PolishSchooler30points
- SwahiliSchooler30points
- SwedishSchooler30points
- TagalogSchooler30points
- ThaiSchooler30points
- VietnameseSchooler30points
- ArabicPlankton10points
- EnglishPlankton10points
- FrenchPlankton10points
- GermanPlankton10points
- HindiPlankton10points
- JapanesePlankton10points
- MandarinPlankton10points
- PortuguesePlankton10points
- RussianPlankton10points
- SpanishPlankton10points
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.