Tashkent hosts international conference on “Problems of Research and Education in the Uzbek Language”
An international scientific and theoretical conference titled “Problems of research and education in the Uzbek language” was held at the National University of Uzbekistan named after Mirzo Ulugbek. The event marked the 37th anniversary of Uzbek being granted State Language status and the 105th anniversary of the “First Regional Congress on the Uzbek Language and Orthography”.
The conference was organized by the Department of Uzbek Linguistics of the Faculty of Journalism and Uzbek Philology at NUUz.
The international conference was held in both offline and online formats, with leading higher education institutions from Türkiye, Kazakhstan, Russia, and Azerbaijan as partners.
During the plenary session and thematic sections, participants heard reports on current issues in the Uzbek language and Turkology. Discussions covered language, orthography and the alphabet, commonalities among Turkic languages, the historical development of Uzbek, applied linguistics and modern trends, and methods for teaching Uzbek as a foreign language.
The conference served as a platform for exchanging scientific experience and developing international cooperation in studying and teaching the Uzbek language.
Khamroz Bayonov, UzA