History
Where did the language Uzbek originate?
Central Asia
Uzbek is descended from Chagatai Turkic, an extinct Turkic language which once served as a lingua franca in Central Asia.
Uzbek speaking countries?
According to open sources, there are currently about 24 million speakers of the Uzbek language in Uzbekistan, 3 million – in Afghanistan, about 1 million – in Tajikistan, 500,000 – in Kazakhstan, about 350,000 – in Turkmenistan, and 300,000 – in Russia.
The Turki language was native for the Uzbek political elite of...
The 16th century
Who created Uzbek language?
Alisher Navoi
Old Uzbek language
A huge contribution to the formation of the language was made by the poet Alisher Navoi, who created a unified and developed literary language.
How many languages are spoken in Uzbekistan?
According to Ethnologue, there are 11 languages actively spoken in the country. The other languages are Bukhari, Crimean Tatar, Karakalpak, Kazakh, Korean Turkish, and Arabic.
Which script is still used in the western Chinese region of Xinjiang and in northern Afghanistan, where there is an Uzbek minority?
the Arabic-based
What language is most similar to Uzbek?
Uyghur
A member of the Turkic language family, Uzbek shares many structural similarities to languages such as Azerbaijan, Kazakh, and Kyrgyz, Tartar, and Turkish. But it is most closely related to Uyghur.
How many people in the world speak Uzbek?
33 million
The science of language is known as ...
linguistics
When did Uzbek declare an official language?
21 December 1995
Decree of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan On Alterations and Amendments to the Law on "Official Language of the Republic of Uzbekistan", 21 December 1995.Nov 8, 2013
Turki was a Karluk language spoken by the older settled Turkic populations of the region (called Sarts) in...
The Fergana Valley and the Qashqadaryo Regionand, in some parts of what is now the Samarqand Region
The most obvious aspect of language is ...
speech
How old is Uzbek language?
The Uzbek language began to form as an independent language from the XI century, and in the 12th century the old Uzbek literary language began to form.
Uzbek was a vowel-harmonised Kipchak language spoken by descendants of those who arrived in Transoxiana in medieval period, who lived mainly around...
Bukhara and Samarkand
The Cyrillic script was used officially in....
1940–1992