Language name: | UZBEK |
UPSID number: | 2175 |
Alternate name(s): | |
Classification: | Ural-Altaic, Turkic |
This language has | 30 segments |
Its Frequency index is | 0.357723577 (average percentage of segments; 0.1: many very rare segments; 0.39: average; 0.7: many common segments) |
The language has these sounds: | p tD k q b dD g tS dZ P f X h RF s S z m nD N r[ l j i u+ e @) aa a_) BA- |
Comment: | Tashkent dialect. Uzbek is spoken primarily in Uzbekistan but also in adjoining republics of the USSR and neighbouring countries. More russified forms of speech contain additional loan segments. |
Source(s): | Sjoberg, A.F. 1963. Uzbek Structural Grammar. Indiana University, Bloomington. Sjoberg, A.F. 1962. The phonology of standard Uzbek. American Studies in Altaic Linguistics (Nicholas Poppe, ed.) Indiana University Publications, Uralic and Altaic Series, vol. 13. |