Geographically, the Central Asian holdings of the East Asia Department cover Mongolia and the Central Asian areas of the People's Republic of China. They include Mongolian, Tibetan, and Uyghur, languages. Central Asian monographs in original languages as well as multi-volume serial works are recorded in a separate Catalogue.

Literature in Western languages pertaining to Central Asia, including periodicals, is registered in the general catalogue, Stabikat, of the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin and can also be found in the Online Catalogue of the East Asia Department. Please note that Chinese materials in the online catalogues of the East Asia Department must be searched with simplified Chinese characters.

Mongolian

Mongolian original-language materials are usually obtained from either Mongolia or the People's Republic of China. While Mongolian publications mostly employ Cyrillic letters, works from the PR China are usually being published in the Old Mongolian or, Uyghur, script. As for the romanisations employed, please see:

• Cyrillic Romanisation
• Mongol Romanisation

Tibetan

Tibetan-language literature comes from the PR China or India. To a lesser degree, publications from the Himalayan states of Nepal and Bhutan are part of the collection. As for the romanisation, please see:

On Letters, Words, and Syllables: Transliteration and Romanization of the Tibetan Script, by Michael Balk

Tibetan Romanisation

Uyghur

Uyghur language books come from the PR China, especially those published in Xinjiang province. As for the romanisation used, please see:

Uyghur Romanisation