Uzbek

Turkic35 million totalLatin

RegionUzbekistan

FamilyTurkic

Speakers35 million total

ScriptLatin

TypeAlphabetic

About Uzbek

The most spoken Turkic language of Central Asia. Descends from Chagatai, the refined court language of the Timurids. Went from Arabic script to Cyrillic to Latin within a century. The tongue of Samarkand and Bukhara. The poet Navoi is its towering classic.

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