Central Eurasian Language Grammars First Attempt

<accesscontrol>CELG</accesscontrol> This page is for organising Central Eurasian Language Grammars project.

Languages included

Turkic

• Uzbek
  • UNESCO status: none
  • 23.5M speakers (estimate, wikipedia)
• 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..."
• 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
  • UNESCO status: none
  • 0.5M speakers (estimate, wikipedia)

Mongolic

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

Tibeto-Burman

• Khams Tibetan
  • UNESCO status: none
  • 1.5M speakers (estimate, wikipedia)
• Amdo Tibetan
  • UNESCO status: none
  • 800'000 speakers (estimate, wikipedia)

IE

• Pashto
  • UNESCO status: none
  • ~26M speakers (estimate, wikipedia)
• Dari
  • UNESCO status: none
  • 7.6M speakers (estimate, ethnologue)
• Tajik
  • UNESCO status: none
  • 4.5M speakers (estimate, wikipedia)