Uzbekistan plans to fully transition the Uzbek language from the Cyrillic script ... approved the target date and a corresponding road map for the plan a day earlier. The government's decision ...

It was in that year that the late President Islam Karimov made Uzbek the country’s sole official language in an implicit effort to peel back his fledging nation’s Soviet legacy. A few weeks ago, a ...

In its latest bid to promote the cause of its state language, Uzbekistan is planning to require anybody aspiring to high-ranking state positions to produce a certificate of proficiency. Under the ...

Written in three alphabets and spoken across Central Asia by 35 million people, Uzbek is the second most widely used Turkic language after Turkish. It is also the sole official language of Uzbekistan, ...