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Southern Uzbek
اۉزبېکچه, اۉزبېکی, اۉزبېک تورکچه سی
Native to	Afghanistan, Pakistan, China, Saudi Arabia
Ethnicity	Uzbeks
Native speakers	L1: 5 million (2021) L2: 0.5 million
Language family	Turkic Common Turkic Karluk Uzbek Southern Uzbek
Early forms	Middle Turkic Khorezmian Chagatai
Writing system	Perso-Arabic
Official status
Official language in	Afghanistan (3rd most spoken language)
Recognised minority language in	China
Regulated by	Afghan Ministry of Education
Language codes
ISO 639-3	uzs
Glottolog	sout2699
Linguasphere	db 44-AAB-da, db
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Southern Uzbek, also known as Afghan Uzbek, is the southern variant of the Uzbek language and an official language of Afghanistan where it is based and has up to 6 million speakers. It uses the Perso-Arabic writing system in contrast to the language variant of Uzbekistan.

Southern Uzbek is intelligible with the Northern Uzbek spoken in Uzbekistan to a certain degree. However it has differences in grammar and also many more loan words from Afghan Persian (in which many Southern Uzbek speakers are proficient).

Southern Uzbek Alphabet

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

• Chagatai language

References

1. Southern Uzbek at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
2. 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.
3. "Uzbek, Southern".

External links

Dictionaries

• Uzbek to Persian/Dari Dictionary (Archive) by Dr. Faizullah Aimaq, Toronto, Canada
• Word translator from Southern Uzbek to Farsi

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