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Uzbek is the official language of Uzbekistan, and has about 18.5 million native speakers. It was written using the Cyrillic alphabet before 1992, but now a Latin alphabet|Latin script is used in Uzbekistan; Uzbek speakers in China write it using the Arabic alphabet. The influence of Islam, and by extension, Arabic, is evident in Uzbek, as well as the influence of Russian, when Uzbekistan was under czarist and Soviet domination. Most of the Arabic words have found their way in Uzbek through Persian. The Uzbek language has many dialects, varying widely from region to region. However, there is a commonly understood dialect which is used in mass media and in most printed material. Some linguists consider the language spoken in northern Afghanistan by ethnic Uzbeks to be a dialect of Uzbek. An example of written Uzbek:
See also: Languages of China InterWiki|code=uz Category:Languages of Uzbekistan Category:Turkic languages de:Usbekische Sprache eo:uzbeka lingvo ja:ウズベク語 pl:Język uzbecki th:ภาษาอุซเบก tr:?zbek?e zh:乌兹别克语 This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Uzbek language".
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