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

Transducers

name	Language	native name	ISO 639		formalism	state	stems	coverage	location	primary authors
			-2	-3
apertium-kaz	Kazakh	қазақ тілі	kk	kaz	HFST (lexc+twol)	production	36,595	~94.5%	apertium-kaz (languages)	Ilnar, Jonathan, Fran, Nathan
apertium-kir	Kyrgyz	кыргыз тили	ky	kir	HFST (lexc+twol)	working	8,564	~90.4%	apertium-kir (languages)	Jonathan, Mirlan, Fran, Qantörö
apertium-uzb	Uzbek	o'zbek tili	uz	uzb	HFST (lexc+twol)	development	34,470	~82.9%
apertium-tuk	Turkmen	Türkmençe	tk	tuk	HFST (lexc+twol)	development	2,988	~70.7%	apertium-tuk (languages)	Fran
apertium-kaa	Karakalpak	Qaraqalpaq tili	-	kaa	HFST (lexc+twol)	prototype	25,545	~86.1%	apertium-kaa (languages)	Beknazar, Fran, Jonathan
apertium-uig	Uyghur	ئۇيغۇر تىلى	ug	uig	HFST (lexc+twol)	prototype	17,585	~54.2%	apertium-uig (incubator)	Jonathan, Märdan, Fran
apertium-tgk	Tajik	забони тоҷикӣ	tg	tgk	lttoolbox	development

Existing language pairs

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