Hoi,
Did you make the request on Meta? This will trigger consideration by the
language committee.
Thanks,
GerardM
On 1 June 2018 at 09:51, Jan Kabel <jan.kabel(a)outlook.com> 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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