L1: 3.5 million (2017)[1] L2: 1.1 million (2022)[1]
Language family
Turkic
Common Turkic
Karluk[2]
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
44-AAB-da, db
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Southern Uzbek, also known as Afghan Uzbek, is the southern variant of the Uzbek language, spoken chiefly in Afghanistan with up to 4.6 million speakers including first and second language speakers.[1] 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 Dari, the local New Persian variety, in which many Southern Uzbek speakers are proficient.[3]
^ abcSouthern Uzbek at Ethnologue (27th ed., 2024)
^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.
^"Uzbek, Southern".
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