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Uzbekistan: Why Uzbek Language Has Not Become a Language of Politics and Science? Uzbekistan: Why Uzbek Language Has Not Become a Language of Politics and Science? “If Uzbek language is the state language, first of all, it is needed to “create” this language, “unitize” and introduce into scientific circulation. The actual absence of Uzbek language in science and art impedes its development as a national one”, – notes an independent researcher Bakhtiyor Alimdjanov in his article written specifically for the analytical platform CABAR.asia. Русский Ўзбекча Follow us on LinkedIn Summary of the article: High ranking government officials of Uzbekistan speak the state language very poorly. The fact that the entire Uzbek elite got education in Russian and worked in the Soviet government institutions is the main reason for this linguistic phenomenon; Non-involvement of Uzbek in the world “modernization” processes has turned it into language of “plain folk”; Russian is a sacred political language for the population of Uzbekistan; A stalled alphabet reform leads to the coexistence of two alphabets in everyday life and education; Knowledge of Russian has become a sign of belonging to a special privileged caste; Despite all the difficulties, Uzbek language is preserved in cinema, theater and music; Internet and local segments of social networks remain the last “island” of Uzbek language development. Uzbekistan: Why Uzbek Language Has Not Become a Language of Politics and Science? The society has an opinion that talking about serious things in national language is impossible. Photo: fedin.org Uzbekistan’s “Oliy Majlis” Senate Chairman, Nigmatilla Yuldashev stated at a meeting of the upper house of parliament on December 13, 2018 that the implementation of law “On the state language of the Republic of Uzbekistan” was left to the mercy of fate[1]. This statement shows that there is a growing need to use Uzbek as a language of power in Uzbekistan. Reasonable questions arise in regard of this situation: how can Uzbek become truly national or state language? What is the role of Russian language in the Uzbek modern society? Is there a purposeful state language policy? Whose Uzbek language? Joseph Brodsky wrote: “Language of the nation is the best what the nation has.” Uzbek language has not become a language of power over the past 28 years. Top ranking government officials of Uzbekistan speak on the state language very poorly. They prefer to quality speak in Russian. The middle and lower echelons of the bureaucratic class tolerably speak Uzbek, using many dialectisms and europeanisms. In terms of the language, metropolitan middle bureaucracy is not very different from the provincial one. Most likely, Uzbekistan: Why Uzbek Language Has Not Become a Language of Politics and Science? provincial ones are less “aggressive” in the language aspect and more “national”. The fact that the entire Uzbek elite got education in russian language and worked in the Soviet government institutions is the main reason for this linguistic phenomenon. Despite the “power” of Russian language in the state structures of Uzbekistan, the workflow in Uzbek language has been growing in recent years. Some politicians urge to translate all record management into Uzbek language. It becomes clear that it is difficult to expect a shift in this area when the central executive authorities and parliament of the republic actively use Russian for record management. The local administration in provinces uses Uzbek, but resort to the Russian language when a serious report needs to be sent “upward”. The fact that higher authorities do not know Uzbek language is obvious. But it is impossible to solve state affairs in national “non-modern” language even if they know it at trivial level. The use of the Russian language in parliament also has its justification. The juristic Uzbek language has not developed. There are no good textbooks in Uzbek yet. Since Uzbek was not formed into a “modern” and understandable language it is impossible to use it as a legal and political. Is Uzbek an “anti-modernization” language? Non-involvement of Uzbek in the global “modernization” processes has turned it into language of “plain folk”. The society has an opinion that talking about serious things in national language is impossible. It must be stated that the process of language decolonization has not occurred, i.e. Uzbek has not become a modernization language. A well-known German philosopher J. Habermas wrote that “modernization is a rationalization”. Obviously, Uzbek language could not “rationalize” and adapt to the challenges of the times. First of all it is due unarticulated and uncertain policy of national identity. Uzbek identity is defined by the mythical “modernization”, which cannot be rationally described. The main reason of “modernization” failure in all spheres of life is a politicized “modernization” imposed on the population “from above” and understood as Westernization. Secondly, the indisputable authority of European languages (Russian and English) prevents the development of Uzbek. Uzbek state and literary language was created during the Soviet era, which was adequately “responding” to the events, became the ersatz of modernity. Thirdly, we have lost the Soviet Uzbek literary language. The modern Uzbek language, in contrast to the Soviet, failed to find its speaker. The modern Uzbek language unsuccessfully imitates the Soviet Uzbek vocabulary and introduces meaningless neologisms into political life. A new Uzbek literary language could not be formed and define its own concepts. As a result, Uzbek language became “many-voiced”, i.e. dialects gained a victory. The Soviet Russian language has become the connecting language of the new Uzbek language with the modernity. Uzbekistan: Why Uzbek Language Has Not Become a Language of Politics and Science? Russian as the language of power and “modernization” The central “Uzbekistan” TV channel daily at 19.30 shows the news in Russian language. At 21.00 the same news is broadcasted in Uzbek language. For last 30 years, this procedure of broadcasting news to the population of the republic has not changed. Russian is a sacred political language for the population of Uzbekistan. This is a language of power and might. Laws are made in this language, scientific works in the institutes of the Academy of Sciences are being written in this language and even serious people on TV discuss the urgent problems of Uzbekistan in Russian. Uzbek language is used in family serials and discussions of spiritual and everyday problems Language differentiation by spheres leads to a strange situation. Information consumers and citizens perceive their national language as an “internal” – family language. The depoliticization of Uzbek language is a consequence of the Soviet state policy, when only folklore and literature could be developed in national languages. During the independence period, the government went even further: Uzbek became a language of constantly “modernizing” or “catching up with the West”. Is Uzbek language modern? There was an attempt to modernize Uzbek language in the 90s of the 20th century. Nationalist intellectuals tried to politicize Uzbek and make it an instrument of modernization and decolonization of consciousness. In 1989 Uzbek language was granted a status of the state language. In 1993 and 1995 the alphabet was reformed. The authorities decided, at the suggestion of local intellectuals, to replace the Cyrillic alphabet by Latin. This reform was not carried out to its logical end and the republic has not fully switched to the Latin script yet. A stalled alphabet reform leads to the coexistence of two alphabets in everyday life and education. The population older than thirty years poorly writes and reads in Latinic. The youth of the republic quickly adapted to two alphabets. This is most of all connected with the active study of English and domination of Russian in public life. The Latin alphabet facilitated the study of both the national language and English. Knowledge of Cyrillic alphabet is a tribute to fashion and elite culture. Uzbekistan: Why Uzbek Language Has Not Become a Language of Politics and Science? When the letter Ц was divided into two separate letters – S and TS, the word “ЦЕХ” (shop) turned into “SEX”. Now they write KOLBASA SEXI (sausage making shop). Photo: openasia.net In May 2018, the government of the republic re-launched the Latinic reform[2]. The authorities decided to approve a new version of Latinic before the end of 2018. New Latinic strongly resembles the Latinic version of 1993 (the “Turkish” version). According to experts, the “new” version of the Latin alphabet “will bring the alphabet closer to the alphabets of other Turkic languages”. We come back again to the national ideology of the 90s of the XX century – to the idea of Turkic languages unity! Uzbekistan: Why Uzbek Language Has Not Become a Language of Politics and Science? Sometimes Latinic and Cyrillic alphabets are present in the same word. Photo: 365info.kz According to experts, the reforms of the alphabet are connected with the foreign policy of Uzbekistan. Uzbekistan was moving closer with Turkey and the United States in the 90s of the 20th century, and from the second half of the 2000s – with Russian Federation. Foreign policy games partially influenced the language situation in Uzbekistan. The failure of the alphabet reforms had a negative impact on Uzbek language. It could not become a modern language of a young state. Ignoring Uzbek in society and perceiving it as a “non- fashionable” language, created an absence of demand effect for Uzbek as a modernizing communication. Learning English also “impeded” the development of Uzbek. Uzbek language seemed to be “frozen” in time and became a language tool and a sign of “underdevelopment”. Russian language as a sign of elitism Knowledge of Russian has become a sign of belonging to a special privileged caste. Despite the fact that Russian-speaking population of the republic has declined (to 1 million people) over the past 30 years, Russian language remains an instrument of “inter-ethnic” Uzbekistan: Why Uzbek Language Has Not Become a Language of Politics and Science? communication.
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