Uzbek Language: Turkic language
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 Uyghur family of Turkic languages.
| Uzbek | |
|---|---|
| Oʻzbekcha, Oʻzbek tili, Ўзбекча, Ўзбек тили, اوزبیکچه, اوزبیک تیلی | |
| Native to | Uzbekistan, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Russia, China |
| Ethnicity | Uzbeks |
Native speakers | 32 million (2017) |
Early forms | Middle Turkic
|
| Latin, Cyrillic and Arabic (used in Afghanistan and China), Uzbek Braille (Uzbek alphabets) | |
| Official status | |
Official language in |  Uzbekistan Afghanistan (3rd official language) |
Recognised minority language in | |
| Regulated by | Tashkent State University of Uzbek language and literature |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-1 | uz |
| ISO 639-2 | uzb |
| ISO 639-3 | uzb – inclusive codeIndividual codes: uzn – Northernuzs – Southern |
| Glottolog | uzbe1247 |
| Linguasphere | 44-AAB-da, db |
 Dark blue = majority; light blue = minority | |
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