Turkic family
Uzbek
1500 CE – today Living
Uzbek (1500 CE – today) is a living Turkic language. Lineage: Proto-Turkic → Old Turkic → Chagatai → Uzbek.
See Uzbek on the interactive map- Speakers
- 34M (34,000,000)
- ISO 639-3
- uzn
- Glottocode
- nort2690
Member of the Karluk (southeastern) branch. Descended from Chagatai, the literary Turkic language of Central Asia.
Lineage
- Proto-Turkicc. 200 BCE – 500 CE
- Old Turkic550 CE – 900 CE
- Chagataic. 1300 CE – 1921 CE
- Uzbek1500 CE – today
Sister languages 1
Also descended from Chagatai.