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Countries

Countries
Turkey, Uzbekistan

Total No. Of Countries
2 13

National Language
Afganistan, China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan

Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents
Middle East

Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries

Regulated By
-

Interesting Facts
  • Uzbek is officially written in the Latin script, but many people still use Cyrillic script.
  • In Uzbek language, there are many loanwords from Russian, Arabic and Persian.

Similar To
Kazakh and Uyghur Languages

Derived From
-

Alphabets

Alphabets in
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Alphabets
29 11

Phonology

How Many Vowels
9 6

How Many Consonants
24 14

Scripts
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin

Writing Direction
-

Hard to Learn

Language Levels
2 1

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks 17

Greetings

Hello
Salom

Thank You
Rakhmat

How Are You?
Qalay siz?

Good Night
Hayirli tun

Good Evening
Hayirli kech

Good Afternoon
Hayirli kun

Good Morning
Hayirli tong

Please
Iltimos

Sorry
Kechiring!

Bye
Xayr

I Love You
Sizni sevaman

Excuse Me
Iltimos! Menga qarang

Dialects

Dialect 1
Tashkent

Where They Speak
-

How Many People Speak
32,000,000.00 23

Dialect 2
Afghan

Where They Speak
-

How Many People Speak
32,000,000.00 21

Dialect 3
Ferghana

Where They Speak
-

How Many People Speak
32,000,000.00 18

Total No. Of Dialects
6 6

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
25.00 million 40

Speaking Population
0.39 % 36

Native Speakers
26.00 million 31

Second Language Speakers
32.00 million 25

Native Name
أۇزبېك ﺗﻴﻠی o'zbek tili ўзбек тили (o‘zbek tili)

Alternative Names
Annamese, Ching, Gin, Jing, Kinh, Viet

French Name
ouszbek

German Name
Usbekisch

Pronunciation
[oʻzbek]

Ethnicity
Uzbek

History

Origin
9th–12th centuries AD

Language Family
Turkic Family

Subgroup
Turkic

Branch
Southestern(Chagatai)

Language Forms

Early Forms
Chagatay

Standard Forms
Uzbek

Language Position
53 48

Signed Forms
Signed Uzbek

Scope
Macrolanguage

Code

ISO 639 1
uz

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T
uzb

ISO 639 2/B
uzb

ISO 639 3
uzb

ISO 639 6
uzb

Glottocode
uzbe1247

Linguasphere
No data available

Types of Language

Language Type
Living

Language Linguistic Typology
-

Language Morphological Typology
-

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Know Alphabets in Uzbek

When you start learning to write in any language the Alphabets form a skeleton of any language. Let's talk About Uzbek Language, where you will learn the number of letter in Uzbek Alphabets. Every language has its own set of alphabets or characters so it is necessary to know alphabets in Uzbek. Uzbek phonology gives Uzbek vowels and Uzbek consonants. There are 9 vowels and 24 consonants in Uzbek language. Based upon the number of alphabet, vowels and consonants in the language we can check if Uzbek is one of the Most Difficult Languages. All about Uzbek language is given in detail in this section.

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All Uzbek countries

Want to explore all Uzbek countries? About Uzbek language serves you with all Uzbek Speaking Countries. Countries that use Uzbek as official language are called as Uzbek countries.

  • Countries that use Uzbek as their National Language are: Afganistan, China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan.

Second language indicates to any language which the person learns in addition to first or native language.

  • Countries that use Uzbek as second language are: Uzbek is not spoken as second language in any of the countries.

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Learn Uzbek greetings

Languages are used by every human being to communicate. And communication begins with the greetings. First step to form any interaction is to learn Uzbek Greetings. Whenever you are travelling to new country where in you don’t know the local language of that country then you should at least be familiar with some greetings to start any formal or informal conversion. When we talk about Uzbek language, we are always interested in learning useful phrases in Uzbek language.Learn Uzbek greetings that can be used in formal situations:

  • Hello: Salom
  • Thank you: Rakhmat
  • Good Morning: Hayirli tong
  • Good Evening: Hayirli kech
  • Good Afternoon: Hayirli kun

All Uzbek Language Codes

Get to know all Uzbek language codes here. There are several languages spoken all over the world where in most of the languages have alternate names which come from diverse sources. All Uzbek Language Codes are assigned with unique code. There is usually two or three letters code for each language. In most of the applications, these language codes are used where it is tedious to use language names.

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