The Formation of the Modern Uzbek Turkic

The Modern Uzbek Turkic is the spoken and written language used in the Uzbekistan since the first half of the 19th century to the present day. The beginning of the formation of the Uzbek Turkic, which is considered to have been in the 1930s, begun with the occupation of the Turkistan Khanates (Fergana Khanate, Khiva Khanate and the Bukhara Khanate) by Soviet Russia. The works of written literature that developed around the idea of unity and solidarity in the aftermath of the occupation of Turkestan by Soviet Russia may be regarded as the beginning of the New Uzbek Turkic. The New Uzbek Turkic, which is a mixture of the Karluk, Kipchak and Oghuz dialects, constitutes the Old and Middle Turkic (as a sub-base) and Persian and Russian (as the upper-base). Due to the oppression and impositions, particularly during the era of the (Soviet) Council, the New Uzbek Turkic, which had taken a great number of words from the Russian language, was interrupted by the Second World War. However, following the war, accrued pain, yearning, longing and other similar emotions and thoughts were reflected in language and literature. The New Uzbek Turkic, which underwent a different process with the independence of Uzbekistan, has been sustaining its progress with literary works written as prose or poem. The lifting of pressure on poets and writers, following the independence in particular, led to freer thoughts and national elements coming to the forefront in the field of language and literature. In this study, the scope, qualities, historical process and establishment phases of New Uzbek Turkic are discussed from the perspective of the author, the period and language.

Keywords

New Uzbek Turkic, Uzbeks, Uzbekistan, Independence, Soviet (Council) Era