After this initial period, Garshuni writing has continued to the present day among some Syriac Christian communities in the Arabic-speaking regions of the Levant and Mesopotamia. Kazakh in Kazakhstan, China, Iran and Afghanistan Kurdish in Northern Iraq and Northwest Iran. (In Turkey and Syria, the Latin script is used for Kurdish) Kyrgyz by its 150,000 speakers in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in northwestern China, Pakistan, Kyrgzstan and Afghanistan Turkmen in Turkmenistan, Afghanistan and Iran Uzbek in Uzbekistan, Afghanistan Official Persian in Iran and its dialects, like Dari in Afghanistan and Tajiki in Tajikistan Baluchi in Iran, in Pakistan’s Balochistan region, Afghanistan and Oman[4] An academy for the protection of the Baluchi Language was established in Iran in 2009[5] Southwestern Iranian languages as Lori dialects and Bakhtiari language[6][7] Pashto in Afghanistan and Pakistan Uyghur changed to Latin script in 1969 and back to a simplified, fully voweled, Arabic script in 1983 Judeo-Arabic languages Judeo-Tunisian Arabic[8] Azerbaijani language in Iran Talysh language in Iran