Uzbek

Also known as Uzbek language

Turkic language

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Uzbek is a Turkic language spoken primarily in Uzbekistan and by diaspora communities across Central Asia and beyond. It matters as the official language of Uzbekistan and a significant regional language that reflects the cultural and historical identity of Uzbek people.

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575 entries in lexical database. Click here for all forms in the database. Uzbek has a number of very divergent dialects. The variety represented here is the standard dialect based on the Samarkand variety. The Tashkent variety exhibits some striking differences from the main variety, but is still basically a member of the Turki branch of Turkic. Oghuz Uzbek and Kipchak Uzbek are members of their respective branches and are quite different from the literary standard. Uzbek has employed a number of alphabets depending on time period and what variety was considered the standard. The present Latin alphabet is based on the Cyrillic one. Neither is very good at representing Uzbek vowel phonemes. I have attempted to correct this in the transcription scheme, but there are likely some issues with my attempts.

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Wikimedia language code: uz
number of speakers, writers, or signers: 27000000
Commons category: Uzbek language
native label: ئۇزبېك تیلى
short name: ózbek tili
exact match: publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/UZB
P10369: Club-Mate
P11012: The Avant-Garde
entry in abbreviations table: узб.
IPA transcription: ˈuz.bɛk
described at URL: lpan.eva.mpg.de/austronesian/language.php?id=871

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Uzbek is a Karluk Turkic language spoken by Uzbeks. It is the official and national language of Uzbekistan and formally succeeded Chagatai, an earlier Karluk language endonymically called Türki or Türkçe, as the literary language of Uzbekistan in the 1920s.

According to the Ethnologue, Southern Uzbek and Standard Uzbek are spoken as a native language by more than 34 million people around the world, making Uzbek the second-most widely spoken Turkic language after Turkish. In addition to these native speakers, there are members of many other ethnic groups such as Tajiks, Kazakhs, and Russians who live in Uzbekistan and speak Uzbek as their second language.