Home to 3 dialects represented on Dialect Atlas, spanning 3 language families.
also: Koryo-mal, Koryo-saram Korean
The Korean variety of the Koryo-saram, descended from communities deported from the Soviet Far East in 1937 to Central Asia. A Hamgyŏng-derived dialect heavily influenced by Russian, now critically endangered.
also: Oʻzbekcha
A Karluk Turkic language and the most-spoken Turkic language after Turkish. The official language of Uzbekistan, with substantial communities across Central Asia, Afghanistan, and the Caucasus.
also: Qaraqalpaqsha
A Kipchak Turkic language closely related to Kazakh, spoken in the autonomous Karakalpakstan region of Uzbekistan around the Aral Sea.