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Uzbek (''O'zbek tili around Latin script, Ўзбек тили'' in Cyrillic script) is a Turkic language spoken by the Uzbeks in Uzbekistan and elsewhere in Central Asia. Its nearest relative, within vocabulary & grammar, is Uighur. Persian and Russian have had significant influences in Uzbek.

Uzbek is the official language of Uzbekistan, & has astir Eighteen.Five million native speakers. It was written using the Cyrillic alphabet before 1992, but okay, the Latin script is used witharound Uzbekistan; Uzbek speakers in China write it using the Arabic alphabet.

A influence of Islam, & by extension, Arabic, is evident within Uzbek, besides once a residuary influence of Russian, from either a period when Uzbekistan was under czaristic & Soviet domination. Virtually all of the Arabic words own obtained their way into Uzbek across Persian.

A Uzbek language has several accent, varying widely from either area to area. Still, there is a usually understood accent which is utilized inside mass media & within virtually all printed poop. the few linguists assume a language spoken inside northern Afghanistan by ethnic Uzbeks to become a idiom of Uzbek.

An lesson of written Uzbek:

Languages On-Line: Uzbek
Audio files in RAM format accompanying an Indiana University course by Khairulla Ismatulla.

Uzbek Profile
Profile of the Uzbek language, from the University of California's Language Materials Project.

O'zbek Sadosi
Listening comprehension activities through stories, offered by the University of Washington.

Teachionary: Uzbek
Thematically organized word fields with sound files.

Uzbek Textbook
Sample lesson from the book by Khairulla H. Ismatulla (PDF).

Uzbek Glossary
Semantically organised glossary of the Uzbek language, presenting its most common words and constructions.


Regional: Asia: Uzbekistan
Science: Social Sciences: Linguistics: Languages: Natural: Altaic: Turkic: Chaghatay Languages





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