Uzbek language
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| Uzbek | ||||
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| O'zbek, Ўзбек, أۇزبېك | ||||
| Native to |
 China |
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| Native speakers | 40 million (2012) |
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| Language family |
Turkic
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| Writing system | Uzbek alphabet | |||
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| Official language in |  Uzbekistan |
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| Language codes | ||||
| ISO 639-1 | uz | |||
| ISO 639-2 | uzb | |||
| ISO 639-3 | uzb – inclusive code Individual codes: uzn – Northern Uzbek uzs – Southern Uzbek |
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Uzbek (O'zbek tili or O'zbekcha in Latin script, Ўзбек тили or Ўзбекча in Cyrillic script; أۇزبېك تیلی in Arabic script) is a Turkic language. It is the official language of Uzbekistan. It has about 40 million native speakers. It is spoken by the Uzbeks in Uzbekistan and elsewhere in Central Asia. Uzbek belongs to the southeastern Turkic or Uyghur family of Turkic languages.
