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• The U.S. Department of Education
• College of Arts and Sciences at Indiana University
• Center for Languages of the Central Asian Region (CeLCAR)
• American Indian Studies Research Institute (AISRI)

Indiana University Partners

• American Indian Studies Research Institute (AISRI)
• Department of Central Eurasian Studies (CEUS)
• Center for Languages of the Central Asian Region (CeLCAR)
• Inner Asian & Uralic National Resource Center (IAUNRC)
• Sinor Research Institute for Inner Asian Studies (SRIFIAS)
• Summer Workshop in Slavic, East European and Central Asian Languages (SWSEEL)

Other Professional Organizations

• The American Association of Teachers of Turkic (AATT)
• American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL)
• The Association for the Study of Persianate Societies (ASPS)
• The American Schools of Oriental Research (ASOR)
• The Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES)
• Central Eurasian Studies Society (CESS)
• Dictionary Society of North America (DSNA)
• Middle East Studies Association (MESA)
• The National Council of Less Commonly Taught Languages (NCOLCTL)
• National Middle East Language Resource Center (NMELRC)
• Turkology Centers around the World

General Funding Organizations

• Turkiye Scholarships
• Atatürk Kültür, Dil ve Tarih Yüksek Kurumu
• Central Eurasia Research Fund (CERF)
• The Council for International Exchange of Scholars (CIES)
• The Institute of Turkish Studies (ITS)
• The Fulbright Program
• The Turkish Cultural Foundation
• Turk Dil Kurumu (TDK)
• The Turkish International Cooperation and Development Agency (TIKA)
• Turkish Studies Association (TSA)
• Türk Tarih Kurumu (TTK)
• TÜBİTAK
• TURKSOY

Current Projects

The Title VI Uzbek Dictionary Project (2004-2008) has compiled a new bilingual dictionary of modern literary Uzbek for English speakers. Currently being edited, this new bilingual dictionary contains over 40,000 Uzbek-English entries (with over 50,000 glosses) and 50,000 English-Uzbek entries. It was compiled primarily from Uzbek-Russian and Uzbek-Uzbek dictionaries published in the former Soviet Union, and updated and expanded to include new lexical items and expressions collected from the web, newspapers, and other recent publications (such as a new 5-volume explanatory Uzbek dictionary and a new 12-volume Uzbek national encyclopedia), as well as information on grammatical usage, over 28,000 illustrative examples, and hundreds of images of cultural objects difficult to explain in English translation.

The Title VI Web-based Multimedia Uzbek Dialect Dictionary Project (2007-2011) represents the first phase of CTILD’s Uzbek Dialect Project at Indiana University. It incorporates data from the Title VI Uzbek Dictionary Project and builds on the latter project’s work by creating an online multimedia comparative dictionary that can be used as a self-learning tool by students to listen to, compare, and study the linguistic variation of Uzbek dialects and the literary language. In addition to images of cultural items, the online dictionary will initially contain textual data and audio recordings of words, phrases, and expressions collected from the Uzbekistani Uzbek literary language and from the Tashkent dialect. (This will be supplemented by recordings from other dialects as additional funding becomes available.) The project is also developing an online interactive audio primer that can be used to train students who have studied Uzbekistani Uzbek to comprehend the different phonological and morphological features of the Tashkent dialect.

Center for Turkic & Iranian Lexicography & Dialectology
Indiana University
Smith Research Center, 118
2805 E. 10th Street
Bloomington, IN 47408 USA
phone: 812-856-3091/812-856-6015
fax: 812-856-6855
web: ctild.indiana.edu
email: ctild@indiana.edu