ISO 639-3 · uzbuzb
Western Karluk family · macrolanguage
Uzbek
Oʻzbek tili
Uzbek is a macrolanguage of the Western Karluk branch, spoken in Uzbekistan and Afghanistan. Wikidata counts about 27 m speakers (2015). Wikidata describes it as “Turkic language”.
At a glance
- ISO 639-3
uzb- ISO 639-1
uz- Glottocode
uzbe1247- Family
- Western Karluk
- UNESCO
- Safe
- Centre point
- 41.00, 64.00
- Wikipedia
- 143 language editions
—first-language speakers
—second-language speakers
2countries
3scripts
1levels in the tree
SafeUNESCO level
Facts
| Name | Uzbek · Oʻzbek tili |
|---|---|
| Also called | Uzbek language |
| All speakers | 27,000,000 (2015) |
| Written in | Latin script, Cyrillic, Arabic script |
| Official in | Uzbekistan, Afghanistan |
| Grammatical cases | 6 listed in Wikidata |
| Kind | macrolanguage |
Vitality
UNESCO: Safe
Languages at this levelfamily tree
From Western Karluk to Uzbek
The branches above Uzbek, top to bottom. Each node counts the languages of this index that belong to it.
3Western KarlukfamilyuzbUzbeklanguage
where it is spoken
Map and countries
A distribution map from Wikimedia Commons, as linked from Wikidata; borders of language areas are approximate.
Also spoken in Uzbekistan
fasFarsiIndo-European · 70 mSafeazeAzerbaijaniTurkic · 35 mSafetgkTajikunclassified · 14 m1 · NationalkazKazakhTurkic · 13.2 m1 · NationaluigUyghurEastern Karluk · 10.4 m2 · ProvincialtukTurkmenTurkic · 7 m1 · NationalchvChuvashTurkic · 738,0702 · ProvincialkaaKarakalpakTurkic · 583,4105 · DevelopingcrhCrimean TatarTurkic · 552,7405 · DevelopingbhhBukharianunclassified · 60,0007 · Shifting