page_title: Southern Uzbek language
section_title: Southern Uzbek Alphabet
hierarchical_section_title: Southern Uzbek language / Southern Uzbek Alphabet
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Cover des Lehrbuchs Adib-i sani von Munavvar Qori Abdurashidxon oʻgʻli († 1931 oder 1933) English: Cover of Adib-e sani by Munavar Ghori Abdurashidkhon written in Nastaʿlīq script
context_page_description: Southern Uzbek, also known as Afghan Uzbek, is the southern variant of the Uzbek language and an official language of Afghanistan where it is based and has up to 4.2 million speakers. It uses the Perso-Arabic writing system in contrast to the language variant of Uzbekistan.
  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 Afghan Persian.
context_section_description: Southern Uzbek is written using the Perso-Arabic writing system called Arab Yozuv ("Arab Script"). Although it contains the same 32 letters which are used in Persian, it pronounces many of them in a different way.
caption: A 1911 text in Southern Uzbek
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