Languages of Central Asia

The languages of Central Asia include several Turkic and Iranian languages spoken in Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, and Afghanistan. These include Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Uzbek, Turkmen, Tajik, Dari, Pashto, Uyghur, and Karakalpak.

The master plan involves generating independent finite-state transducers for each language, and then making individual dictionaries and transfer rules for every pair. The current status of these goals is listed below.

Status

Existing language pairs

	kaz	kir	tuk	uzb	uig	tgk	kaa	prs
kaz	-	kaz-kir					kaz-kaa
kir	kaz-kir	-		kir-uzb
tuk			-
uzb		kir-uzb		-
uig					-
tgk						-
kaa	kaz-kaa						-
prs								-
eng	eng-kaz	ky-en
fas						tg-fa
khk	khk-kaz
nog	nog-kaz
tat	'kaz-tat '	tat-kir
tur		tur-kir	tuk-tur	tur-uzb