Ahmedjanova Zumrad (comp.) Uzbek language

Durhame: Duke University, Duke Center for Slavic, Eurasian, and East European Studies, 2016. — 225 p.The Uzbek language belongs to the Turkic group of languages and is spoken not only in Uzbekistan but also in neighboring countries: Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and Afghanistan. 72% of the population of Uzbekistan is Uzbek; 85% of the population speaks Uzbek. More than 3 million Uzbeks live outside of Uzbekistan. Though Uzbeks can communicate with fellow Turkic speakers of Kazakh, Turkmen, Tatar, Kyrgyz, Turk and Azeri, the closest to them will be Uyghur speakers. The Uzbek language consists of East-Iranian and Turkic dialects, which were spoken for centuries on the territory between the rivers Amudarya and Sirdarya.