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. Classification
Official Status Connections
Written In
Uzbek is standardly written in the Latin alphabet (official since the 1990s transition from Cyrillic).
In the Other Atlases
- Also in Geography Atlas: Asia, found in there.
- Also in Geography Atlas: Central Asia, found in there.
Sources
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
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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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