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 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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In Family
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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Found In
Also in Geography Atlas: where this subject is found.
Also in Geography Atlas: where this subject is found.
Sources
1. Glottolog: Northern Uzbek (Glottolog nort2690)
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Uzbek, Northern (uzn-uzn) = 1 (National).
2. 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
Lead section
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
View the Source 3. WALS Online (World Atlas of Language Structures): Uzbek / Order of Subject, Object and Verb (WALS datapoint)
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Feature: Order of Subject, Object and Verb by Matthew S. Dryer Value: SOV
4. Effective Language Learning: Language Difficulty Ranking
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Category IV: 44 weeks (1100 hours) Languages with significant linguistic and/or cultural differences from English Albanian Amharic Armenian Azerbaijani Bengali Bosnian Bulgarian Burmese Croatian Czech * Estonian * Finnish * Georgian Greek Hebrew Hindi * Hungarian Icelandic Khmer Lao Latvian Lithuanian Macedonian * Mongolian Nepali Pashto Persian (Dari, Farsi, Tajik) Polish Russian Serbian Sinhala Slovak Slovenian Tagalog * Thai Turkish Ukrainian Urdu Uzbek
5. Omniglot: Uzbek language, alphabet and pronunciation
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First written : 14th century
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