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Revision as of 15:31, 26 December 2022 editKabulistani1 (talk | contribs)4 edits The overwhelming part of loanwords are from Farsi. There is very little pashto influence on southern uzbek if at all. It spoken form is fully intelligible since the split in dialect didn't occur to long ago. The standard official Uzbek form in Uzbekistan is also Southern Uzbek not Northern. Only main difference is the new writing system in Uzbekistan.Tag: Reverted← Previous edit Revision as of 11:31, 27 December 2022 edit undo114.124.206.243 (talk)No edit summaryTags: Reverted Mobile edit Mobile web editNext edit →
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| states = ], ]<ref>According to ] there are 1.6 million speakers of Southern Uzbek in Pakistan</ref> | states = ], ], ], ]<ref>According to ] there are 1.6 million speakers of Southern Uzbek in Pakistan</ref>
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Variant of Uzbek spoken in Afghanistan and Pakistan

Southern Uzbek
اوزبیکچه, اوزبیکی, اوزبیک تورکچه
Native toAfghanistan, Pakistan, China, Saudi Arabia
EthnicityUzbeks
Native speakersL1: 5 million (2021)
L2: 0.5 million
Language familyTurkic
Early formsMiddle Turkic
Writing systemPerso-Arabic
Official status
Official language in Afghanistan (3rd most spoken language)
Regulated byAfghan Ministry of Education
Language codes
ISO 639-3uzs
Glottologsout2699
Linguaspheredb 44-AAB-da, db
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Southern Uzbek or Uzbeki (Uzbek: اوزبیکچه, اوزبیکی, اوزبیک تورکچه) is the southern variant of the Uzbek language spoken in Afghanistan and Pakistan by the Uzbek people. It has up to 6 million speakers and is written using the Perso-Arabic or Nastaliq writing system in contrast to the language variant of Uzbekistan.

Southern Uzbek is intelligible with the Northern Uzbek spoken in Uzbekistan. However it has slightly more loan words from Farsi, in which many Southern Uzbek speakers are proficient and few loanwords from Pashto.

Southern Uzbek Alphabet

Main article: Uzbek alphabet
A 1911 text in Southern Uzbek

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

  1. According to Ethnologue there are 1.6 million speakers of Southern Uzbek in Pakistan
  2. Southern Uzbek at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Closed access icon
  3. Scott Newton (20 November 2014). Law and the Making of the Soviet World: The Red Demiurge. Routledge. p. 232. ISBN 978-1-317-92978-9.
  4. "Uzbek, Southern".

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