An Introduction to Chaghatay: A Graded Textbook for Reading Central Asian Sources
A textbook designed by GWU professor Eric Schluessel for those learning to reading Chagatay, the premodern literary Turkic language of Central Asia, closely related to Uzbek and Uighur. This creative commons textbook includes grammar explanations, reading exercises, paleographic notes, and a useful Chagatay-English glossary.
This composite dictionary, designed by Seth Knights, combines a number of popular Uzbek-English dictionaries in one place, currently allowing users to search both Indiana's Uzbek-English Dictionary and Hervé Guérin's Uzbek-English Glossary. It also allows users to search in Cyrillic and offers suggested Cyrillic spellings for Uzbek searches in Latin.
A service of the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center, the Global Language Online Support System offers hundreds of lessons at 4 different levels depending on the target language, with an emphasis on listening comprehension.
This website compiled by Brian Geco contains a number of pdfs of Uzbek textbooks and dictionaries, including Uzbek: An Elementary Textbook, Uzbek for Foreigners, Colloquial Uzbek: A Mini Course, and the Defense Language Institute's Uzbek Textbook.
A widely cited thematic glossary of Uzbek terms. Compiled by French data scientist Hervé Guérin and previously maintained on Guérin's now defunct website www.uzbek-glossary.com.
A useful explainer of the Uzbek grammar of more complex temporal and conditional expressions with numerous examples in English and Uzbek. Compiled by French data scientist Hervé Guérin and previously maintained on Guérin's widely cited but now defunct website www.uzbek-glossary.com.
Brief grammatical sketches of Uzbek, partnered with extensive oral and written exercises using authentic, contemporary Uzbek. Maintained by the Duke Slavic Centers.
An extensive online Uzbek-English dictionary including definitions in English for numerous converbial forms and verb compounds. The dictionary works best for searches from Uzbek to English and exclusively employs Uzbek written in Latin script.
Global Voices Comprehensive: Music and Culture of Kyrgyzstan
Global Voices Comprehensive: the Music and Culture of Kyrgyzstan, created by Munara Mailybekova and Aida Huseynova, is an interactive DVD-ROM highlighting the music and culture of Kyrgyzstan. Global Voices Comprehensive is produced by Mary Goetze and Jay Fern and funded by the Department of Education Title VI Grant from the Inner Asian & Uralic National Resource Center. Please fill out and submit this form to request Music & Culture of Kyrgyzstan.
