Uzbek

36.1M people can hold a conversation in Uzbek across 7 countries; official in 1.

Data as of 28 Oct 2026 · ISO 639-3 uzb · Glottolog uzbe1247 · Turkic · CLDR 49, Glottolog 5.3, States sheet

Where Uzbek is spoken

Share of each country's people who can hold a conversation in it.

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Countries

Share of the population and people who can hold a conversation in it, by country.

How this is measured
Most figures are CLDR's estimates of speakers. CLDR lists only each country's larger languages, so where it has no figure a national census or official survey fills in, and the Figure column says which and what it counts. A home-language figure is a floor: more people can speak the language than use it at home.
1
official
85%
33.2M
2
regional
4.7%
2.1M
3
9.0%
635K
4
none
0.2%
248K
5
none · Census, mother tongue
0.0%
0
6
none
0.0%
0
7
none
0.0%
0

States where it is the first language

States whose first language is this one, largest population first.

1
Samarqand [Samarkand]
4.0M
2
Farg'ona [Fergana]
3.9M
3
Qashqadaryo [Kashkadarya]
3.4M
4
Andijon [Andizhan]
3.3M
5
Toshkent [Tashkent]
2.9M
7
Toshkent shahri [Tashkent City]
2.9M
8
Surxondaryo [Surkhandarya]
2.7M
9
Buxoro [Bukhara]
2.0M
10
Qoraqalpog'ston [Karakalpakstan]
1.9M
11
Xorazm [Khorezm]
1.9M
12
Jizzax [Dzhizak]
1.4M

Family

Where it sits in the Glottolog tree, root to language.

  1. Turkic
  2. Common Turkic
  3. Kipchak-Turkestan
  4. Turkestan
  5. Modern Turkestan
  6. Uzbek

Turkic: 19 languages, 198M speakers.

Where these numbers come from

Definitions are on the Method page.