#Chaghatay #turkic #openaccess

Card catalogs with the tops labelled in Arabic-script Uzbek/Chaghatay.

Card catalogs with the tops labelled in Arabic-script Uzbek/Chaghatay.

One of these days, someone will write a good article on the uses of "neo- #Chaghatay" in #Uzbekistan. The social dynamics of writing #Uzbek in Arabic script -- like on the catalogue at the Beruni Institute in #Toshkent -- are unlike any other language I know of that has officially switched scripts.