Translations and other language solutions in Uzbek

Throughout its history, Uzbek has been written in several alphabets. The Arab invasion of Uzbekistan in the eighth century converted nomadic Turkic tribes to Islam. As a result, Uzbek was written in the Perso-Arabic alphabet for centuries before the Soviet Union replaced it with the Latin alphabet in the late 1920s. The dialects of the major cities of Tashkent and Fergana were then used as the standard Uzbek language. However, as part of the Russification campaign, the Latin alphabet was abolished in early 1940 and Cyrillic was introduced. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1993, the Latin alphabet has been reintroduced to facilitate trade and improve relations with foreign countries and was declared the official alphabet by the Uzbek government. Uzbek is one of the few Central Asian languages to use the Latin alphabet. In 2018, another draft alphabet reform was published. It proposed replacing the digraphs Ch, Sh, Gʻ, Oʻ with oç, ş ş, Ğ ğ, Ŏ ŏ respectively. Another draft reform was published in 2019. The last language reform project was in 2021, when the Uzbek government announced a complete switch from the Cyrillic alphabet to the Latin alphabet. Despite the official status of the Latin script in Uzbekistan, the use of Cyrillic is still widespread, especially in advertising and signage. Newspapers may contain mixed articles with headlines in Latin and articles in Cyrillic. Arabic script is no longer used in Uzbekistan, except symbolically in limited texts or in Chagatai (the old Uzbek language) in academic studies.

Latin Uzbek alphabet:

А а, B b, D d, Е е, F f, G g, H h, I i, J j, K k, L l, М m, N n, О о, P p, Q q, R r, S s, Т t, U u, V v, X x, Y y, Z z, Oʻ oʻ, Gʻ gʻ, Sh sh, Ch ch, Ng ngʼ.

Cyrillic Uzbek alphabet:

А а, Б б, В в, Г г, Д д, Е е, Ё ё, Ж ж, З з, И и, Й й, К к, Л л, М м, Н н, О о, П п, Р р, С с, Т т, У у, Ф ф, Х х, Ц ц, Ч ч, Ш ш, Ъ ъ, Ь ь, Э э, Ю ю, Я я, Ў ў, Қ қ.