Southern Uzbek, also known as Afghan Uzbek, is the southern variant of the

Uzbek language Uzbek is a Karluk Turkic language spoken by Uzbeks. It is the official and national language of Uzbekistan and formally succeeded Chagatai, an earlier Karluk language endonymically called or , as the literary language of Uzbekistan in the 19 ...

, spoken chiefly in

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with up to 4.6 million speakers including first and second language speakers. It uses the

Perso-Arabic The Persian alphabet (), also known as the Perso-Arabic script, is the right-to-left script, right-to-left alphabet used for the Persian language. It is a variation of the Arabic script with four additional letters: (the sounds 'g', 'zh', ' ...

writing system in contrast to the language variant of

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. 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

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, the local

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variety, in which many Southern Uzbek speakers are proficient.

Southern Uzbek Alphabet

Southern Uzbek is written using the Perso-Arabic writing system called ''Arab Yozuv'' عرب یازوو ("Arab Script"). The writing system is for the most part identical to

Persian alphabet The Persian alphabet (), also known as the Perso-Arabic script, is the right-to-left alphabet used for the Persian language. It is a variation of the Arabic script with four additional letters: (the sounds 'g', 'zh', 'ch', and 'p', respecti ...

, with 3 additional letters. These include two vowels, "اۉ / ۉ" and "اې / ې" (optional in writing, and substitutable in practice by "او / و" and "ای / ی" respectively), which are meant to represent the sounds represented in Uzbek Latin Script with "E e" and "Oʻ oʻ". The alphabet also includes a combined consonant letter "نگ", formerly (and currently in writing systems such as Uyghur) shown with the letter "ڭ". This letter represents the sound /ŋ/, and represented in the Latin writing system with "-ng". This letter makes the Voiced velar nasal sound, where in English one can for example hear when pronouncing the word "wingman". Uzbek has 6 vowels, and it has lost its

vowel harmony In phonology, vowel harmony is a phonological rule in which the vowels of a given domain – typically a phonological word – must share certain distinctive features (thus "in harmony"). Vowel harmony is typically long distance, meaning tha ...

rules, unlike other Turkic languages.Asamura, Takao. “Longing for Legacy: Vowel Harmony in the Uzbek Standard Language, 1924-1934.” Russian and East European Studies 2007, no. 36 (2007): 48–60
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Other than the additional combined letter "نگ / -ng", the consonants of Uzbek Arabic Alphabet are identical to that of Persian. Thus, there indeed is a case of various letters representing the same sound, as is the case in Persian. But the letters "ث، ح، ذ، ژ، ص، ض، ط، ظ، ع" are not used for writing of native Uzbek words. They are solely used for writing of loanwords from Arabic, Persian, or any of the European languages.

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Dictionaries
Uzbek to Persian/Dari DictionaryArchive
DFby Dr. Faizullah Aimaq, Toronto, Canada
Uzbek to Persian/Dari Dictionary (Volume 1)
Both Latin and Arabic orthography. DF(2007) By Muhammadhalim Yarqin, Tehran, Iran
Uzbek to Persian/Dari Dictionary (Volume 2)
Both Latin and Arabic orthography. DF(2007) By Muhammadhalim Yarqin, Tehran, Iran
Word translator from Southern Uzbek to Farsi
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Southern Uzbek Alphabet

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