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Locale Uz 001

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Use when working with the Uzbek locale (`uz-001`) — its endonym Oʻzbekcha, Latin script, left-to-right (LTR) direction, or spoken-population data. Reference data and translation guidance (register, grammar, idiom, typography) for this specific locale; see [[locale]] for general i18n/l10n concepts (BCP 47, plural rules, RTL) that apply across all locales.

Reference data for the Uzbek locale — endonym Oʻzbekcha, written in the Latin script, left-to-right (LTR).

Identifiers

  • BCP 47 tag: uz-001
  • ISO 639-1: uz
  • ISO 639-3: uzb
  • Script: Latn (Latin)
  • Region: 001 (World)
  • Text direction: ltr — left-to-right (LTR)

Speakers (approximate)

  • L1 (native): 36,000,000
  • L2 (additional): 2,000,000
  • L1+L2 (total): 38,000,000

Pluralization

CLDR plural categories for this locale: one, other (2 forms).

  • one — n = 1 (e.g. 1)
  • other — everything else (e.g. 0, 2~16, 100, 1000, …)

See Unicode Messageformat for writing plural messages using these categories.

Translating into this locale

Uzbek is a Turkic language written officially in the Latin script (since the 1990s, revised in 2021), while Cyrillic remains in wide use. Choose the script before translating. This guidance covers the Latin alphabet.

Translate ideas, not words.

  • Uzbek is agglutinative with subject-object-verb order. Do not translate through Russian; restructure English sentences.
  • Use Uzbek terminology where it exists (from the Uzbek language institutions), not raw Russian loanwords.
  • Re-express idioms by meaning.

Grammar and register.

  • Six cases; no gender; no plural after numerals. Uzbek has weak vowel harmony compared with Turkish.
  • Siz is the polite form for UI and public text; sen is informal.

Orthography and typography.

  • The letters oʻ and gʻ use the modifier letter turned comma (U+02BB ʻ); the apostrophe-like mark in maʼno uses U+02BC ʼ. Do not use a straight apostrophe.
  • Digraphs sh, ch, and ng represent single sounds.
  • Currency soʻm; decimal comma; dates 2026-yil 17-oktabr; 24-hour clock; quotation marks “…” or «…».

Common pitfalls

  • Using straight apostrophes in oʻ, gʻ.
  • Mixing Latin and Cyrillic scripts.
  • Using Russian syntax.

Learn more

  • Locale for BCP 47 identifiers, locale-sensitive formatting, pluralization, and text-direction concepts that apply across all locales.
  • Unicode Messageformat for writing plural/selection messages correctly for this locale's grammar.
  • Alisher Navoi Tashkent State University of Uzbek Language and Literature
  • Microsoft Localization Style Guide, Uzbek (https://aka.ms/uzbek-styleguide)

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