Uzbek 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)e18
Language family	Turkic Common Turkic Karluk Uzbek
Early forms:	Middle Turkic Khorezmian Chagatai Uzbek
Writing system	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	Tajikistan Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan Turkmenistan Russia China
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 code Individual codes: uzn – Northern uzs – Southern
Linguasphere	44-AAB-da, db
Dark blue = majority; light blue = minority

Uzbek Language Media

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  A 1911 text in the Arabic alphabet

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  Covers of translated books in Uzbek. As can be seen, both Latin and Cyrillic scripts are widely used in the country. Most names are also transliterated, for example Template:Random item.

• This video was recorded in Cape Town during Wikimania 2018.