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LingoBear creates short Uzbek passages on topics you choose. Tap any word for an instant English translation and build your vocabulary as you read. Karluk Turkic language, switching from Cyrillic to a Latin alphabet (final reform 2021), no vowel harmony (lost), agglutinative SOV grammar, ~35M speakers.

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What is Uzbek and where is it spoken?

Uzbek (Oʻzbek tili) is a Karluk Turkic language and the official language of Uzbekistan, with around 35 million speakers across Uzbekistan, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan and Russia. It is closely related to Uyghur and is one of the few Turkic languages to have largely lost vowel harmony, partly because of long contact with Persian Tajik.

Which script does Uzbek use?

Uzbek switched from Arabic to Latin (1928), to Cyrillic (1940), and back to a Latin alphabet from 1993 onwards. A 2021 reform standardised the modern Latin Oʻzbek alifbosi using oʻ for /o/ and gʻ for /ɣ/, and removed some earlier ambiguities. Cyrillic is still widely used in everyday signage and older literature. Afghanistan's Uzbek community continues to write in a Perso-Arabic-based script.