Oʻzbekcha
Ўзбекча
- Language Facts:
Speakers: 33 million
Family: Turkic
Status: Official in Uzbekistan. Recognized minority language in Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Afghanistan.
Family: Turkic
Status: Official in Uzbekistan. Recognized minority language in Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Afghanistan.
Script: Latin, Cyrillic
- Uzbek is officially written in the alphabet, but writing in Cyrillic is still very common. Learners will have to also learn Cyrillic to read proficiently in Uzbek.
- Some aspects of the grammar will be simple. There are no genders, and no definite articles.
- Uzbek uses a Subject-Object-Verb word order, like other Turkic languages
- Also like other Turkic languages, Uzbek is an agglutinative language.
- If you don’t know what language to learn, why not learn Uzbek?
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