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Language and literature · Uzbekistan

Turkic languages, epics, books, writers and poets: from the Orkhon inscriptions to today.

Works and epics

Literary workNavoi's KhamsaFive poems written in 1483–1485 — the first complete Khamsa in Turkic and a response to Nizami Ganjavi.Read more →
Literary workBaburnamaThe memoirs of Babur, founder of the Mughal Empire, written in Chagatai Turkic.Read more →
Literary workBygone Days (Abdulla Qodiriy)The first Uzbek novel (1922–1926), a tragic love story set in the 19th-century Kokand Khanate.Read more →
Literary workAlpamysh (epic)An ancient Turkic heroic epic alive among the Uzbeks, Kazakhs, Karakalpaks, Bashkirs and Altai.Read more →

Writers and poets

Languages

LanguageUzbek languageThe state language of Uzbekistan, of the Karluk branch of Turkic, and the second most widely spoken Turkic language after Turkish.Read more →