Turkic · ISO 639-3 uzn
Northern Uzbek Language
Northern Uzbek is a Turkic language spoken by about 28 million people in 1 country. It is written in the Cyrillic and Latin scripts.
Where Northern Uzbek is spoken
- Official language
- Regional official
- Spoken by 10%+
- 1–10%
- Smaller communities
Countries that speak Northern Uzbek
About the Northern Uzbek language
Northern Uzbek is spoken by about 28 million people, which makes it the 57th most spoken language in the world — just behind Saraiki (28 million) and ahead of N'Ko (27 million). It belongs to the Turkic language family and, more precisely, to the Uzbek group within the Kipchak-Turkestan branch.
Where is Northern Uzbek spoken?
Northern Uzbek is used in 1 country. The largest communities live in Uzbekistan (28 million). More than half of the population speaks it in Uzbekistan — the places where travellers will hear it everywhere.
Northern Uzbek is not a national official language anywhere.
Writing system and status
Northern Uzbek is written in the Cyrillic and Latin scripts. It is a safe, widely transmitted language: children still learn it at home as their first language.
Its closest relatives in the same branch of the family are Southern Uzbek, Uighur, Uzbek, Kazakh, Tatar, Kirghiz and 2 more.
ISO codes: ISO 639-3 uzn.
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Data: Languages of the World dataset (MIT) — ISO 639-3, Glottolog (CC BY 4.0), Unicode CLDR, Google LinguaMeta (CC BY 4.0) and Wikidata; country lists: samayo/country-json (MIT). Speaker numbers include first- and second-language speakers where sources report them.