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Uzbek

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Uzbek is a Karluk Turkic language spoken by Uzbeks. It is the official and national language of the Republic of Uzbekistan, having formally succeeded Chagatai as the literary language of Uzbekistan in the 1920s.

Facts
ISO 639-3 Code
uzb 1
Speaker Count
36,000,000 1
2020-2024 estimate, combining figures given for both Northern and Southern Uzbek varieties in the infobox.
Region
Central Asia 1
Classification
Official Status
Official Language 1
Uzbek
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Latin Script, Scripts

Uzbek is standardly written in the Latin alphabet (official since the 1990s transition from Cyrillic).

Sources
1. Wikipedia: Uzbek Language
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  • Lead section
    Uzbek is a Karluk Turkic language spoken by Uzbeks. It is the official and national language of the Republic of Uzbekistan and formally succeeded Chagatai, an earlier Karluk language endonymically called Türki or Türkçe, as the literary language of Uzbekistan in the 1920s.
  • Infobox, ISO 639-3
    uzb
  • Infobox, Speakers
    36 million
  • Infobox, Region
    Central Asia
  • Official status, Uzbek entity page
    It is the official and national language of the Republic of Uzbekistan, having formally succeeded Chagatai as the literary language of Uzbekistan in the 1920s.
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