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A country that has been changing alphabet for thirty years
Uzbekistan adopted a Latin alphabet in 1993 and revised it in 1995, and the switch from Cyrillic has been under way ever since. Deadlines for completing it have been set and moved more than once. The result is not a country that has changed script but a country that uses two at the same time. Street signs, state documents, school books and government websites are increasingly in Latin. A great deal of published literature, a lot of the press, and most people educated before the mid-1990s remain comfortable in Cyrillic, and plenty of material is still produced in it.
For a document project that means the script is a decision, not a default. A submission to a ministry in Tashkent should be in Latin. Material aimed at an older readership, or intended to sit alongside an existing body of Cyrillic publications, may well be better in Cyrillic. There is no version that reads naturally to everyone, and the two are not interchangeable by a simple character mapping, because the Latin orthography makes distinctions using digraphs and modifier letters that the Cyrillic one handles differently.
A third script is in use outside the country's borders. Uzbek is a recognised regional language in northern Afghanistan, where it is written in Perso-Arabic letters and runs right to left. Documents from Mazar-i-Sharif or Faryab are therefore in a form that a reader in Tashkent working from Latin script cannot follow at all, and a translation project covering both audiences is really two projects.
Details of Uzbek that decide whether a file is usable
The letters with a raised comma
Two letters of the Latin alphabet, an o and a g, are written with a small raised comma after them. The mark is a modifier letter with its own Unicode code point, not an apostrophe, and it is almost universally typed as an ordinary apostrophe or converted into a curly quotation mark by autocorrect. The word then looks right and no longer matches itself in a search, an index or a database field. This is the single most common defect in Uzbek digital text and it is worth checking deliberately.
A separate mark for the glottal stop
A further apostrophe-like character marks a glottal catch or a lengthened vowel inside a word, mostly in vocabulary borrowed from Arabic and Persian. It is a different character again from the raised comma on the o and the g, and a document that uses one ASCII apostrophe for all three purposes has merged distinctions the orthography deliberately makes.
Vowel harmony that mostly is not there
This is where Uzbek parts company with its Turkic neighbours. The standard language is based on the speech of Tashkent, which sits in a zone of long Persian contact, and it has largely lost the vowel harmony that governs suffix choice in Kazakh, Kyrgyz and Turkmen. Suffixes are correspondingly more stable, which makes the language a little more forgiving to process and means rules borrowed from other Turkic languages will not apply.
Digraphs behaving as single letters
The Latin alphabet uses sh, ch and ng as units rather than as letter sequences, which affects alphabetical sorting, hyphenation and any character-level processing you apply to the text. A proposal to replace them with accented single letters was circulated for discussion some years ago and was not adopted, so the digraphs remain current.
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Producing an Uzbek version of your PDF
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Drag the PDF over or browse to it. The Pro and Business plans handle documents up to 1 GB, which covers a tender pack or a bound set of certificates.
Set Uzbek as the target
Choose the source language first. Documents from Uzbekistan are frequently in Russian, and documents from northern Afghanistan are in a different script, so identify what you are holding.
Check the raised commas
Open the finished file and look at the o and g characters that should carry a raised comma. Consistent marks throughout mean the text is clean; a mixture of straight and curly apostrophes means it is not.
The largest Turkic language after Turkish, and its paperwork
Roughly thirty-five million people speak Uzbek, making it the second largest Turkic language by speakers. Most are in Uzbekistan, with substantial communities in northern Afghanistan, southern Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. Work abroad, education and a rapidly opening economy generate the bulk of the translation demand, and the document types repeat:
- Passports, birth and marriage certificates and identity documents for work and residence applications in Russia, Kazakhstan, South Korea and Turkey
- Labour contracts, work permits, skills certificates and pre-departure documentation for migrant workers
- Diplomas and academic transcripts from Tashkent institutions, including the medical and technical academies that take large numbers of international students
- Investment and commercial documents from an economy opening to foreign capital: joint venture agreements, licences, customs paperwork and regulatory filings
- Cotton, textile, mining and energy sector contracts, specifications and compliance documents
- Court decisions, notarial deeds, powers of attorney and inheritance papers, frequently drawn up in Russian rather than Uzbek
- Medical records, discharge summaries and treatment histories for patients travelling for care
- Tourism, heritage and museum material for the Silk Road cities of Samarkand, Bukhara and Khiva
Personal names are a recurring snag. Older documents carry Russian-style endings and the romanisation printed in a passport follows its own convention, so a name can appear in several forms across one file. Follow the passport, always. And for anything that will be filed with an authority, order a certified translation with a translator's signed accuracy statement rather than submitting a machine draft.
Choosing between the two alphabets
Reasons to choose Latin
- Anything being submitted to a government body or a state institution
- School and university material, and anything aimed at people educated since the late 1990s
- Signage, packaging, product labelling and public-facing commercial material
- Websites and software interfaces, where it is now the expected default
Reasons to choose Cyrillic
- Material for an older readership, who read it faster and more comfortably
- Publications joining an existing series or archive already set in Cyrillic
- Documents that will sit alongside Russian-language material for the same audience
- Anything intended for Uzbek speakers in neighbouring post-Soviet countries
If you genuinely need both, produce both and have each version read by someone who uses that script daily. Machine conversion between the two gets most words right and reliably stumbles on the places where the Latin orthography uses a digraph or a modifier letter, which is exactly where a reader's eye stops.
Uzbek translation questions
Should my Uzbek translation be in Latin or Cyrillic?
Latin for anything official, educational, public-facing or digital, since that is the direction the country has been moving since 1993 and the script younger readers were taught in. Cyrillic for an older readership, for a publication joining an existing Cyrillic series, or for Uzbek speakers in neighbouring post-Soviet countries. Both are genuinely in use, so the choice depends on who is reading rather than on which is correct.
What are the apostrophe-looking marks in Uzbek Latin text?
There are two different things involved. A raised comma after an o or a g forms a distinct letter, and a separate apostrophe-like character marks a glottal stop or a lengthened vowel, mainly in Arabic and Persian loanwords. Neither is an ordinary apostrophe, and both are constantly typed as one or converted into curly quotation marks by autocorrect. The result is text that reads correctly and fails to match itself in a search.
Can Uzbek text be converted from Cyrillic to Latin automatically?
Partly. Most letters map straightforwardly, and a converter will get the bulk of a text right. It reliably struggles at the points where the Latin orthography uses digraphs or the modifier letters, and those are the places a reader notices immediately. Treat a conversion as a draft that needs proofreading by someone who works in the target script rather than as a finished document.
Is Uzbek from Afghanistan the same as Uzbek from Uzbekistan?
It is the same language with real differences in script and vocabulary. In northern Afghanistan it is written in Perso-Arabic letters and runs right to left, and it has absorbed Dari vocabulary rather than Russian. A Latin-script document from Tashkent is unreadable to someone who only reads the Afghan form, and a project covering both communities needs two versions.
How different is Uzbek from Kazakh, Kyrgyz or Turkish?
It is Turkic, so the structure will look familiar to speakers of any of them, but Uzbek sits in the Karluk branch with Uyghur rather than with its Kipchak neighbours, and centuries of Persian contact have shaped both its vocabulary and its sound system. Notably, standard Uzbek has largely lost the vowel harmony that governs suffixes in Kazakh, Kyrgyz and Turkmen, so rules taken from those languages do not transfer.
Why do names appear differently across my documents?
Soviet-era registration attached Russian endings to Uzbek family names, romanisation into Latin letters follows its own conventions, and the script transition means the same name may have been written three ways over one lifetime. Every version can be legitimate. Use the spelling printed in the passport across all translated documents and flag any difference in a note so it does not read as a discrepancy.
Will the layout of a certificate or a contract survive?
Yes. Seals, stamps, signature blocks, headers, tables and multi-column pages stay in position, and the translated text is fitted into the room available. Uzbek adds suffixes to the ends of words rather than using prepositions, so individual words are often longer than the English, which matters in the tightly ruled boxes of a Soviet-format certificate.
What are the limits and the cost?
The Pro and Business plans accept files up to 1 GB or 5,000 pages, Basic up to 100 MB and 300 pages, and Free up to 20 MB and 20 pages. Without a subscription, AI translation is charged per document at $0.005 per word. Basic, Pro and Business include pages every 30 days and bill only what goes past that allowance. A one-page certificate on Free costs from $0.99 (a scanned page is $1), which is enough to check it and its special characters.
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