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GerardM
On 1 June 2018 at 09:51, Jan Kabel <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello fellow wikipedia users,
>
> I want to propose the creation of a wikipedia for the Uzbek language (uzb)
> variant which uses the Perso-Arabic writing system, called „Arab Yazuv“
> („Arab writing system“). This variant is also known as Southern Uzbek (uzb)
> or Afghan Uzbek.
>
> Although there is an Uzbek wikipedia (uz.wikipedia.org), it does not
> include this type of writing system and therefore it cannot be understood
> by a large group of Uzbek speakers who use this writing system. This group
> of speakers consists of 3.4 million people in Afghanistan alone, where the
> Perso-Arabic writing system is the sole and only used writing system for
> the Uzbek language. There are also a sizable group of Uzbeks living in
> Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and China who still use the Arab variant for writing
> their language.
>
> Historically the Perso-Arabic writing system was the only writing system
> used for the Uzbek language before beeing replaced in Uzbekistan by latin
> and cyrillic writing systems in the 20th century.
>
> The amount of literature for the Uzbek language written in the
> Perso-Arabic writing system is considerably high due to the developmemt of
> Uzbek from Chaghatai (chg), which is very closely resembled to the
> Perso-Arabic written Uzbek language of today.
>
> The amount of modern Uzbek literature in this writing system increased in
> recent years due to educational improvements in Northern Afghanistan. The
> interest in a Wikipedia for Uzbek Speakers using the Perso-Arabic writing
> system is also considerably high and will probably increase even more after
> its creation.
>
> The language is sufficiently unique because it shares more words with
> Persian and Arabic than the language variant used in Uzbekistan. It is even
> differentiated from the „uzb“ language code of Uzbekistan and uses its own
> „uzs“ language code. The language can not coexist on the general latin
> based Uzbek wikipedia which consists of the latin and cyrillic written
> variant of the language, because those two variants share a much stronger
> etymological and liguistic development and are often understood by both,
> cyrillic and latin writers of the Uzbek language, whereas the Perso-Arabic
> variant is almost exclusively understood by the Afghan Uzbeks. Most modern
> computer like Mac and Windows desktops include Afghan Uzbek Keyboards.
>
> I want to thank anybody who can help in this case.
>
> Abu Asem
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