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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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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.
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