Uzbek (O'zbek tili or O'zbekcha in Latin script, Ўзбек тили or Ўзбекча in Cyrillic script, أۇزبېك تیلی in Arabic script) is a Turkic language. It is the official language of Uzbekistan. It has about 40 million native speakers. It is spoken by the Uzbeks in Uzbekistan and elsewhere in Central Asia. Uzbek belongs to the southeastern Turkic or Karluk family of Turkic languages.
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| Uzbek |
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| Native to | Uzbekistan, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Russia, China |
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| Ethnicity | Uzbeks |
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Native speakers | 32 million (2017)[1] |
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Early forms | |
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| Latin, Cyrillic and Arabic (used in Afghanistan and China), Uzbek Braille
(Uzbek alphabets) |
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Official language in | Uzbekistan
Afghanistan (3rd official language) |
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Recognised minority
language in | |
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| Regulated by | Tashkent State University of Uzbek language and literature |
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| ISO 639-1 | uz |
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| ISO 639-2 | uzb |
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| ISO 639-3 | uzb – inclusive code
Individual codes:
uzn – Northern
uzs – Southern |
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| Glottolog | uzbe1247 |
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| Linguasphere | 44-AAB-da, db |
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 Dark blue = majority; light blue = minority |
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