Classification

• Tashkent dialect
• Ferghana dialect
• Samarkand-Bukhara dialect
• Khiva dialect

• Tashkent dialect
• Ferghana dialect
• Kypchak dialect
• Kharezm-Oghuz dialect
• Northern Uzbek dialects

• Chaghatay Dialect Group:
  • Iranized dialects:

1. Samarkand-Bukhara subgroup (Samarkand-Bukhara-Khodjand type);
2. Tashkent subgroup (Tashkent and surrounding dialects: Khanabad, Telov);
   • Transitional Dialects: Non-harmonized dialects
3. Kokand-Marghilan Subgroup;
4. Andijan-Shahrikhan Subgroup.

   • 4-a type: Chartak type Or Uyghur type Or Umlauted dialects: Namangan, Chartak, Shohand;
5. Harmonized Ferghana Village dialects: Saray, Yolguzar, Ganjiravan, Kataghan.
   • Non-Iranized dialects:
6. Northern Uzbek City type dialects: Turkistan-Chimkent (J-type dialects of the Uzbek Kypchak dialect);
7. Northern Uzbek Village type dialects: Saroy-Andijan, Yolguzar, Mankent,Karabulak.

• Oghuz Dialect Group:

1. Southern Kharezm group dialects (Khiva, Yangiurgench, Shavat, Gazavat, Hazarasp, Yangiariq, Khanka);
2. Northern Oghuz group dialects (Ikan, Karabulak).

• Kypchak Dialect Group:

1. Middle Kharezm: Southern Kharezm group dialects: Gurlan, Baghat, Shabbaz; Baghdan dialect in Jizzakh;
2. Northern Kharezm: Xodjayli, Kypchak, Konghirat, Manghit);
3. O-type dialects:Kazakh-Nayman, Ferghana-Karakalpak dialects;
4. Kurama dialects: Akhangaran valley;
5. Northern Uzbek dialects: Suzak, Chalakurghan village dialects in Turkistan;
6. Middle Uzbek: kirk dialect and others;
7. Southern Uzbek dialects: Lakay, Kypchak dialects in Afghanistan.

• Uzbek-Kypchak Dialect Group:

This dialect group is divided into 4 subgroups:

1. Kirk dialect: between Djizzakh and Samarkand
2. Jalayir-Lakay dialect: Tajikistan va Kyrgyzstan
3. Kypchak dialect: Andijan province: Kurghantepa, Jalalkuduk, Oyim districts
4. Gurlan dialect: Kharezm province Gurlan district

Area:

• Akhangaran valley, Mirzachol, Oratepa, Samarkand, Bukhara, Kashkadarya, Surkhandarya
• Northern Kharezm, Andijan, Namangan, Ferghana cities
• Karakalpakstan: Kypchak, Chimbay, Konghirat districts
• Lakay and Kurghantepa of Tajikistan, Kabodiyon, Seraykamar, Kulab
• Northern parts of Afghanistan

• Turk-Barlas Dialect Group:

This dialect group is also divided into 4 subgroups:

1. Sayram-Chimkent
2. Tashkent-Xos
3. Andijan
4. Namangan

Area:

• Tashkent, Kokand, Namangan, Andijan, Marghilan
• Very few: Samarkand, Bukhara, Kashkadarya
• Kazakhstan: Chimkent, Sayram

• Khiva-Urganch (Turk-Karluk) Dialect Group:

This dialect group is divided into 2 subgroups:

1. Khiva
2. Karluk

Area:

• Khiva
• Khonka
• Ghazavat
• Shahabad
• Kat
• Tashavuz
• Eski Urgench
• Yangi Urgench
• Hazarasp
• Turtkul

1st-version (1940)

• O-type Dialect Groups

City dialects: Tashkent, Samarkand, Bukhara, Kattakurghan, Andijan, Kokand, Marghilan, Ferghana, Karshi , Jizzakh and others;

• A-type Dialect Groups

Dialects which kept vowel harmony:

1) Y-type Dialects: Cities in Southern Kazakhstan: Chimkent, Mankent, Turkestan

2) J-type Dialects: Village dialects: Northern Kharezm, Surkhandarya, Samarkand provinces

2nd-version (1953)

• Middle Uzbek Dialect:

1) Tashkent, Samarkand, Bukhara, Ferghana;

2) Northern Uzbek Dialect:Chimkent, Sayram, Djambul, Marki and some dialects of Southern Kazakhstan;

• Shaybani-Uzbek or J-type Dialect Groups

Samarkand, Bukhara, some dialects of Surkhandarya Province and Akhangaran valley, Kypchak and Karakalpak dialects of Northern Kharezm and Ferghana valley;

• Southern Khareazm Dialect

Khonka, Hazarasp, Shavat, Yangiarik, Ghazavat, Shurakhan and surrounding villages.

• Special type dialects

1) Karabulak, Ikan, Mankent dialects;

2) Umlauted dialects.

• Kypchak Dialect Group:

Kazakh-Nayman dialect in Samarkand province, Ferghana-Karakalpak dialects, Kurama dialects in Akhangaran valley.

• Oghuz Dialect Group:

Khiva, Khanqa, Shavat, Khazarasp, Ghazavat, Shurakhan, Urgench. Also, Dashoghuz, Turtkul; and some Northern Uzbek Dialect Groups: Karabulak, some elements found in Mankent, Ikan, Karamurt; Baghdan village in Djizzakh Province.

• Karluk-Chigil-Uyghur Dialect Group:

Tashkent, Namangan, Andijan, Ferghana,Marghilan, Kokand; Afghanistan

• Ferghana Group:
  • Namangan dialect: Uychi, Charbagh;
  • Andijan-Shahrikhan: Andijan city, Shahrikhan, some dialects in Andijan province;
  • Osh-Uzgen dialect: Osh, Uzgen, Jalalabad-Kyrgyzstan;
  • Marghilan-Kokand, Vadil.
• Tashkent Group:
  • Tashkent dialect: Tashkent city, Pskent, Parkent, Karakhitay.
  • Djizzakh dialect: Tashkent and Samarkand provinces, Djizzakh, Khavas; Polati, Molati, Bayterek dialects of Kashkadarya valley;
• Karshi Group:
  • Karshi,Shahrisabz, Kitab, Yakkabagh(except j-type dialect groups);
  • Samarkand-Bukhara dialect: Samarkand,Bukhara, Leninabad(Khujand), Kasan dialect of Kashkadarya valley, Ferghana valley, Chust.
• Northern Uzbek Group: Southern Kazakhstan:
  • Ikan-Karabulak dialect: Ikan, Karabulak, Mankent, Karamurt.
  • Turkistan-Chimkent dialect: Turkistan, Chimkent, Sayram.

• Y-type Dialect Group
  • Samarkand and surrounding city dialects
  • Djizzakh, Kattakurghan; Barlas dilects of Mitan and Karatepa
  • Usmat-Turk, Barlas
  • Dialect of Samarkand Arabs: Pastdargham, Ishtikhan, Kattakurghan
  • Karnab
  • Forish, Baghdan
  • Iranian dilects of Samarkand and Djizzakh cities
  • Turkmen dialects of Samarkand province Pastdargham district
• J-type Dialect Group
  • Eastern: Kypchak dialects of Gallaaral, Zamin, Djizzakh, Forish (Karabdal), Bulunghur, Jambay, Payarik, Urgut and Samarkand districts
  • Western: Pastdargham, Kattakurghan, Guzalkent, Nurabad, Narpay, Paxtachi, Khatirchi, Kushrabad, Nurata district