Southern Uzbek language
Southern Uzbek or Uzbeki (Uzbek: اوزبیکچه، اوزبیکی، اوزبیک تورکچه) is the southern variant of the Uzbek language spoken in Afghanistan and Pakistan by the Uzbek people. It has up to 6 million speakers and is written using the Perso-Arabic or Nastaliq writing system in contrast to the language variant of Uzbekistan.
| Southern Uzbek | |
|---|---|
| اوزبیکچه، اوزبیکی، اوزبیک تورکچه | |
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| Native to | Afghanistan, Pakistan[1] |
| Ethnicity | Uzbeks |
Native speakers | L1: 5 million (2021)[2] L2: 0.5 million |
Early forms | |
| Perso-Arabic | |
| Official status | |
Official language in |  Afghanistan (3rd most spoken language) |
| Regulated by | Afghan Ministry of Education |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | uzs |
| Glottolog | sout2699 |
| Linguasphere | 44-AAB-da, db |
Southern Uzbek is intelligible with the Northern Uzbek spoken in Uzbekistan. However it has slightly more loan words from Persian, in which many Southern Uzbek speakers are proficient and few loanwords from Pashto.[4]
Southern Uzbek Alphabet
A 1911 text in Southern Uzbek
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
References
- According to Ethnologue there are 1.6 million speakers of Southern Uzbek in Pakistan
- Southern Uzbek at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
- 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, Southern".
External links
- Online Dictionary
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