Uzbek (O‘zbek tili)
CLI PROGRAMS FOR UZBEK (ASU and non-ASU students)
- Intensive Elementary Uzbek (SLC 194)
- Location: ASU Main Campus
For beginning students. Passport required. - Intensive Intermediate Uzbek (SLC 294)
- Location: ASU Main Campus
Prerequisite: Elementary Uzbek or equivalent training (2 semesters at the 100 level) - Intensive Advanced Uzbek (SLC 394)
- Location: ASU Main Campus
Prerequisite: Intermadiate Uzbek or equivalent training (2 semesters at the 200 level) - Summer study abroad in Dushanbe (SLC 494)
- Location: Dushanbe, Tajikistan
Short-term, 3-week study for students of Advanced, Intermediate, or Elementary Uzbek.
Accepting applications: November 15, 2009 to March 1, 2010. Rolling admissions for unfilled classes after March 1.
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Related to Turkish, Uzbek is the official language of Uzbekistan, where about 15 million speak it as their first language. Uzbek was declared the official language of Uzbekistan in October 1989. Popular and scientific texts are published in Uzbek as well as newspapers. Uzbek is also used on radio and television, as well as in the theater. Education in Uzbek is available from primary school through university level.
Uzbek was written with a Cyrillic script during the Soviet Union. It is now written with a Latin script in Uzbekistan. (The Cyrillic script is still used in Uzbek communities outside Uzbekistan, for example in Tajikistan.) Here is a sample of modern Uzbek:
Barcha odamlar erkin, qadr-qimmat va huquqlarda tang bo'lib tug'iladilar. Ular aql va vijdon sohibidirlar va bir-birlariga birodarlarcha muomala qilishlari zarur.
(Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, as cited by http://omniglot.com. Map and description (adapted) by UCLA Language Materials Project (http://www.lmp.ucla.edu/Profile.aspx?LangID=70&menu=004).