Central Eurasian Language Grammars First Attempt/Contributions/earlydraft

Uzbek
- UNESCO status: none
- 23.5M speakers (estimate, wikipedia)
- Who (idea): John Erickson
- Who (idea): someone else
Kazakh
- UNESCO status: none
- 12M speakers (estimate, wikipedia)
- Who (last resort): Jonathan
Uyghur
- UNESCO status: none
- 10M speakers (estimate, wikipedia)
- Who (idea): Arienne Dwyer (recommended by Mahire Yakup (recommended by Eric Schluessel))
- Who (other recommendations by Eric): "Reyhangul Abliz (Professor at Xinjiang Agricultural University, co-author of Uyghur: A manual for conversation and De Jong's grammar) rayhan10@hotmail.com, tell her I sent you; Abdurishit Yakup (in Germany, wrote an excellent grammar of Turpan Uyghur); Mahire Yakup (at University of Kansas, teaches Uyghur at SWSEEL, PhD student); Frederick de Jong (very, very senior professor at Utrecht, produced the above-mentioned learner's grammar of Uyghur with Reyhangul and others), frederick.dejong@let.uu.nl, again, tell him I sent you..."
- Who (idea): Niko
Turkmen
- UNESCO status: none
- 9M speakers (estimate, wikipedia)
Kyrgyz
- UNESCO status: none
- 3.5M speakers (estimate, wikipedia)
- Who (current gramar draft): Jonathan
Uzbeki (Afghan Uzbek)
- UNESCO status: none
- 1,451,980 speakers (estimate, ethnologue)
Qaraqalpaq (probably won't do)
- UNESCO status: none
- 0.5M speakers (estimate, wikipedia)

Khalkha
- UNESCO status: none
- 2.6M speakers (estimate, wikipedia)
- Who (current grammar draft): Andrew

Central Tibetan
- UNESCO status: none
- 3-6 million speakers (estimate, CIB)
Khams Tibetan (probably won't do)
- UNESCO status: none
- 1.5M speakers (estimate, wikipedia)
Amdo Tibetan
- UNESCO status: none
- 800'000 speakers (estimate, wikipedia)
- Who (idea): Arienne Dwyer

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