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.
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ISO 639-3 Code Speaker Count2020-2024 estimate, combining figures given for both Northern and Southern Uzbek varieties in the infobox. StatusWikipedia article on Uzbek: a currently spoken living language with an active native-speaker population; checked 2026-09-27. Attested From (Year) Classification
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Source Wikipedia: Uzbek Language
Source Wikipedia: Uzbek Language
Written In
Uzbek is standardly written in the Latin alphabet (official since the 1990s transition from Cyrillic).
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1. Wikipedia: Uzbek Language
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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 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
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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.
In Family: Turkic, Infobox, Language family
Turkic
In Family: Common Turkic, Infobox: fam2
Common Turkic
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First written : 14th century
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