Uzbek (Ўзбек тили/O'zbek tili/أۇزبېك ﺗﻴﻠی)

Uzbek is a Turkic language with about 16.5 million speakers mainly in Uzbekistan. but also in Australia, China, Germany, Israel, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkey (Asia), Turkmenistan, Ukraine and the USA.

An early form of Uzbek, known as Chagatai (one of the sons of Genghis Khan) and written with the Arabic script, emerged as a literary language in the 14th century. A version of the Latin alphabet replaced the Arabic script in 1927, and was in turn replaced by the Cyrillic alphabet in 1940. Recently, moves have been made to reintroduce the Latin alphabet.

Arabic alphabet for Uzbek (ئۇزبېك الفباسى)

Arabic alphabet for Uzbek

Cyrillic alphabet for Uzbek (ўзбек алифбоси)

Cyrillic alphabet for Uzbek

Latin alphabet for Uzbek (o’zbek alifbosi) - 1995 version

Latin alphabet for Uzbek

Uzbek sample text

Arabic alphabet

Cyrillic alphabet

Барча одамлар эрҝин, қадр-қиммат ба ҳуқуқларда танг бўлиб туғиладилар. Улар ақл ва виждон соҳибидилар ва бир-бирла ига биродарларча муомала қилишлари зарур.

Latin alphabet

Barcha odamlar erkin, qadr-qimmat ba huquqlarda tang bo'lib tug'iladilar. Ular aql va vijdon sohibidilar va bir-birla iga birodarlarcha muomala qilishlari zarur.

Translation

All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.
(Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights)

Useful phrases in Uzbek

Recommended books

Links

Information about the Uzbek language
http://www.oxuscom.com/250words.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uzbek_language

Online Uzbek lessons
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Uzbek_language
http://home.unilang.org/wiki3/index.php/Uzbek_lessons

Uzbekcha Gapiramiz - Speaking Uzbek (Uzbek phrasebook)
http://www.sambuh.com/?l=en&prm=o&id=7

Online Uzbek dictionaries
http://www.ismanov.com
http://www.geocities.com/zangari_kema/izlabtop.html
http://uzbek.firespeaker.org
http://www.turkbirlik.gen.tr/

Online Uzbek radio
http://www.bbc.co.uk/uzbek/
http://www.ozodlik.org

Learn Turkic languages - Turkish, Turkmen and Uzbek
http://www.xs4all.nl/~iamback/turkic/

Related languages

Azerbaijani, Balkar, Bashkir, Chuvash, Crimean Tatar, Even, Evenki, Gagauz, Karakalpak, Kazak, Kumyk, Kyrghyz, Nanai, Tatar, Turkish, Turkmen, Uyghur, Uzbek, Yakut

Other languages written with the Cyrillic alphabet