This is a common situation in the rest of Central Asian republics, including: the Turkistan region of Kazakhstan, northern Daşoguz Welaýat of Turkmenistan, Sughd region and other regions of Tajikistan. Since Uzbek is the dominant language in the Osh Region of Kyrgyzstan (and mothertongue of the city Osh), like the rest of Eastern, Southern and South-Eastern Kyrgyzstan ( Jalal-Abad Region), the ethnic Kyrgyzes are, too, exposed to Uzbek, and some speak it fluently. The popularity of Uzbek media, including Uzbekfilm and RizanovaUz, has spread among the Post-soviet states, particularly in Central Asia in recent years. The language is spoken by other ethnic groups outside Uzbekistan. Uzbek, being the most widely spoken indigenous language in Central Asia, is as well spoken by smaller ethnic groups in Uzbekistan and in neighbouring countries. Ī high degree of mutual intelligibility found between certain specific Turkic languages, geographically located close or sometimes further from the area where Uzbek is spoken, has allowed the speakers of Uzbek to (with ease) comprehend various other distantly related languages. Since the family is classified to be a dialect continuum, it can be noted that it is found to be the most suitable variety or dialect to be understood by the most number of various Turkic language speakers, despite it being heavily Persianized, excluding the Siberian Turkic languages. Uzbek is a member of the Karluk languages, a sub-group of Turkic languages, belonging to the western branch, while the eastern variety carries the name Uyghur. Similar deadlines had been extended several times. In February 2021, the Uzbek government announced that Uzbekistan plans to fully transition the Uzbek language from the Cyrillic script to a Latin-based alphabet by 1 January 2023. Apart from Kipchak influences, Uzbek also shows some features from Oghuz group (for example, in its grammar) and Persian, all of which gives Uzbek an impression of being a mixed language. Nevertheless, the significant influence of Kazakh (a Kipchak Turkic language) makes Uzbek markedly distinct from Uyghur with regard to some grammatical aspects. Unlike other Turkic languages, vowel harmony is almost completely lost in modern Standard Uzbek, though it is still observed to some degree in its dialects, as well as in its sister Karluk language Uyghur. One of the most noticeable distinctions of Uzbek from other Turkic languages is the rounding of the vowel / ɑ/ to / ɔ/, a phoneme that was shared by neighbouring Tajik, a variety of the Persian language. External influences include Arabic, Persian and Russian. Uzbek belongs to the Eastern Turkic or Karluk branch of the Turkic language family. There are two major variants of the Uzbek language, Northern Uzbek spoken in Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and China and Southern Uzbek spoken in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Uzbek is spoken as either native or second language by 44 million people around the world (L1+L2), making it the second-most widely spoken Turkic language after Turkish. It is the official, and national language of Uzbekistan.

Uzbek (Uzbek: Oʻzbekcha, Oʻzbek tili, Ўзбекча, Ўзбек тили Perso-Arabic script: اۉزبېکچە, اۉزبېک تیلی, ), formerly known as Turki, is a Turkic language spoken by Uzbeks. For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Unicode characters. This article contains IPA phonetic symbols. Dark blue = majority light blue = minority

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