- Speakers (estimate)
- c. 8.2 million
- sum over countries per CLDR, including second-language users
- Script
- Arabic, Cyrillic
Where it is spoken
- Regional 1
- Minority 3
Regional
-
China
0.6%
7.8 million
Co-official in Xinjiang.
Minority
- Kazakhstan 2% 405 thousand
- Afghanistan <0.1% 3.0 thousand
- Mongolia <0.1% 990