Karakalpak is a Northwestern Turkic language mainly spoken mostly by Karakalpaks in Karakalpakstan (Uzbekistan), along the lower Amu Darya river, and around the southern part of the Aral Sea. Small groups of speakers also live in Afghanistan (probably fewer than 2000 speakers), Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Turkmenistan. Karakalpak was written in the Arabic alphabet until 1928, in the Latin alphabet (with additional characters) from 1928 to 1940, and is usually written in the Cyrillic alphabet (with additional characters) today, although there seems to be a trend to return to the Latin alphabet after the end of the Soviet era.
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