Southern Uzbek language
| Southern Uzbek | |
|---|---|
| اوزبیکچه, اوزبیکی, اوزبیک تورکچه | |
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| Native to | Afghanistan |
| Ethnicity | Uzbeks |
Native speakers | 6 million (2021)[1] |
Early forms | |
| Perso-Arabic | |
| Official status | |
Official language in |  Afghanistan (3rd most spoken language) |
Recognised minority language in | |
| Regulated by | Afghan Ministry of Education |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | uzs |
| Glottolog | sout2699 |
| Linguasphere | db 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 6 million speakers. It uses the Perso-Arabic writing system in contrast to the language variant of Uzbekistan.
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).[3]
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
References
- ^ Southern Uzbek at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ 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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