Southern Uzbek language
| Southern Uzbek | |
|---|---|
| اوزبیکچه, اوزبیکی, اوزبیک تورکچه | |
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| Native to | Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Iran, Tajikistan, China, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan |
| Ethnicity | Uzbeks |
Native speakers | 4.2 million (2017)[1] |
Early forms | |
| Arabic | |
| Official status | |
Official language in |  Afghanistan (3rd official language) |
Recognised minority language in | |
| Regulated by | Afghan Ministry of Education |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | uzs |
| Glottolog | sout2699 |
| Linguasphere | 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 4.2 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. pp. 232–. ISBN 978-1-317-92978-9.
- ^ "Uzbek, Southern".
External links
- Online Dictionary
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