Southern Uzbek language
Southern Uzbek | |
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اوزبیکچه, اوزبیکی, اوزبیک تورکچه | |
Native to | Afghanistan |
Ethnicity | Uzbeks |
Native speakers | 4.2 million (2017)[1] |
Language family | Turkic
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Early forms | Middle Turkic
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Writing system | Perso-Arabic |
Official status | |
Official language in | Afghanistan (3rd most spoken language) |
Recognised minority language in |
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Regulated by | Afghan Ministry of Education |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | uzs |
Glottolog | sout2699 |
Linguasphere | 44-AAB-da, db |
Southern Uzbek, also known as Afghan Uzbek, is the southern variant of the Uzbek language and an official language of Afghanistan where it is based and has up to 4.2 million speakers. It uses the Perso-Arabic writing system in contrast to the language variant of Uzbekistan. It uses the Pashto alphabet.[3]
Southern Uzbek is intelligible with the Northern Uzbek spoken in Uzbekistan to a certain degree. However it has differences in grammar and also many more loan words from Afghan Persian (in which many Southern Uzbek speakers are proficient).[4]
Southern Uzbek Alphabet[]
Southern Uzbek is written using the Perso-Arabic writing system called Arab Yozuv ("Arab Script"). Although it contains the same 32 letters which are used in Persian, it pronounces many of them in a different way.
See also[]
- Chagatai language
References[]
- ^ Southern Uzbek at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ^ Scott Newton (20 November 2014). Law and the Making of the Soviet World: The Red Demiurge. Routledge. p. 232. ISBN 978-1-317-92978-9.
- ^ "Uzbek Language - Structure, Writing & Alphabet - MustGo".
- ^ "Uzbek, Southern".
External links[]
- Online Dictionary
Southern Uzbek language test of Wikipedia at Wikimedia Incubator |
- Agglutinative languages
- Turkic languages
- Turkic languages of Afghanistan
- Languages of Kazakhstan
- Languages of Kyrgyzstan
- Languages of Russia
- Languages of Tajikistan
- Languages of Turkmenistan
- Languages of Uzbekistan
- Languages of China
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