Uzbek language

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)[1]
Language family	Turkic Common Turkic Karluk[2] Uzbek
Early forms	Middle Turkic Khorezmian Chagatai
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
Glottolog	uzbe1247
Linguasphere	44-AAB-da, db
Dark blue = majority; light blue = minority
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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.

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