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Uzbek Language

Uzbek dialects, Uzbek alphabet, Uzbek orthography, Uzbek language history and sources

Uzbek language

Uzbek: Official language of Uzbekistan since 1989.

Number of Uzbek Speakers: 15 million.

Uzbek Speakers: In Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, Australia, the United States, and Germany.

Language Classification: Member of Eastern Turkic (or Karlik) group.

Uzbek Dialects: Six. Dialect of Tashkent is the basis for current Uzbek language. Acceptance of Tashkent dialect made Uzbek quite a different language than that in the past.

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Uzbek Alphabet: Cyrillic after Soviet invasion in 1940. Previously in Arabic script after Arabic conquest in the 9th century.

Uzbek Orthography: Ten vowels, and 25 consonants. Five nominal cases: nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, and ablative. Subject-Object-Verb order in sentence.

Uzbek Language Enriched by: Arabic, Persian, and modern Russian.

For more linguistic affiliation, language variation, orthography, linguistic sketch, and history of Uzbek language UCLA Language Materials Project has a good linguistics and interlingual background information on Uzbek.

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