Demographic Table for Inner Asian LCTLs
Name of Language	Country	Mother Tongue (L1) Speakers	Most Recent Year of Cited Data	All Language Speakers in Region	Current Usage & Socio-cultural Importance
ADYGHE	Turkey	71,000	1965	300,000
ARABIC, NORTH MESOPOTAMIAN SPOKEN	Iraq	5.4 M	1992
	Turkey	400,000	no date	6.3M
ARABIC, MESOPOTAMIAN SPOKEN	Iran	1.2 M	no date	12.7M
	Iraq	11.5 M	no date	12.7M
NAJDI SPOKEN ARABIC	Iraq	900,000	no date
ARABIC, STANDARD	Iraq	see note	no date		national
ARMENIAN	Armenia	3.2 M	1993	6 M	national
	Turkey	40,000	1980 est.
AZERBAIJANI, NORTH	Azerbaijan	6.07 M	1989	6.17M	national
	Armenia	161,000	1993
AZERBAIJANI, SOUTH	Iraq	300,000-900,000	1982
	Turkey	500,000	no date	24.4M
	Iran	23.5 M	1997
FARSI, EASTERN	Afganistan	5.6 M	1996	7 M	national
FARSI, WESTERN	Iran	22 M	1997	24.3M	national
GEORGIAN	Georgia	3.9 M	1993	4.1 M	national
GILAKI	Iran	3.27 M	1993
HAZARAGI	Afganistan	1.4 M	1989	1.75-6 M?
KABARDIAN	Turkey	202,000	1993	647,000
KAZAKH	Kazakhstan	5.3 M	1979	8 M	national
KIRGHIZ	Kyrgyzstan	2.45 M	1993	2.63 M	national
KURDI	Iran	3.25 M	no date
	Iraq	2.8 M	no date		national
KURMANJI	Turkey	3.4M	1980	7-8M
KIRMANJKI	Turkey	140,000	1972	1.5M
LURI	Iran	4.28 M	1993
MAZANDERANI	Iran	3.27 M	1993
MINGRELIAN	Georgia	500,000	1989
PASHTO, SOUTHERN	Afganistan	8 M	1989, 1996	19M	national
QASHQA'I	Iran	1.5 M	1997
TAJIKI	Tajikistan	3.4 M	1991	4.4M	national
TALYSH	Azerbaijan	800,000-1 M	1996	1-2 M
TURKISH	Turkey	46.3M	1997	61M	national
	Uzbekistan	197,000	1979 est.
TURKMEN	Afganistan	500,000	1995	6.4M
	Iran	2 M	1997
	Turkmenistan	3.4 M	1995		national
UZBEK, SOUTHERN	Afganistan	1.4 M	1991	1.5 M
GULF SPOKEN ARABIC
UZBEK, NORTHERN	Uzbekistan	16.5 M	1995	18.46M	national