Today, the Department of Uzbek Linguistics within the Faculty of Journalism was part of the Faculty of Uzbek Philology in 1991-2016, that is, during the 25 years of independence. Uzbek Linguistics (head of the faculty Prof. K. Nazarov, Yo. Tojiev, R. Sayfullaeva, Prof. M. Qurbanova), General Linguistics (head of the faculty Prof. Sh. Rakhmatullaev, Associate Professor M. Kadirov, A. Juraev, Kh.Dadaboev, associate professor B.Abdushukurov), interfaculty Uzbek language and Turkology (head of department I.Kochkortoev, associate professor A.Rafiev, Kh.Kahhorova) with lectures and practical trainings from 3 departments of linguistics went Ayub Ghulamov created the foundation of Uzbek linguistics. He established a large school of linguistics in Uzbekistan. In a number of higher educational institutions, prestigious research institutes and other scientific centers of our republic, representatives of these maktabs, students of the scientist are creating as captains of Uzbek linguistics.
The department of Uzbek language and speech culture was established based on the annex of the decision of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan dated May 11, 2016 No. 2527 “On measures to further improve the activities of the National University of Uzbekistan”. The department has been teaching Uzbek, Russian languages ​​and speech culture to students in 36 undergraduate majors and 67 master’s majors in 10 faculties of the university. From September 2016, the department was run by Ph.D. Assoc. M. T. Abdurakhmanova managed. From September 2017, the department was renamed as the “Uzbek and Russian Languages” department. After 2018, the Department of Uzbek Philology was restored, Philology language teaching (Uzbek language) evening, part-time course, Linguistics (Uzbek language) and Computer Linguistics specialties, 10.00.11 – Theory of Language and Computer Linguistics , 10.00.01 – Uzbek language specialty was opened.
Since November 2019, the Department of Uzbek Linguistics has been operating as a separate department. Currently, under the leadership of the head of the department, professor Kurbanova Muhabbat, 23 main and 7 associate professors are teaching at the department.
The department has published several books during its history. “Affixal synonymy in the Uzbek language” by Professor Yo.Tajiev (verb formation, verb generators, verb form generators 1992), “Morphemics of the Uzbek language” (1992), “Grammar of the Uzbek language” 1999), “Basics of Uzbek speech culture and methodology” (Textbook, co-authored 1994, 2006),
Professor R. Sayfullaeva… “Current Uzbek literary language” (R. Sayfullaeva and others), “Modern morphology” by professor M. Qurbanova (in collaboration with the team) 2009, “Uzbek dialectology”, “Computer linguistics” (A. Polatov), ​​”Foreign sociolinguistics” (H. Dadaboev, Sh. Usmonova), “Etymological dictionary of Turkish languages” (Sh. Rahmatullaev), “Current literary Uzbek language” (Sh. Rahmatullaev), “Methodology of mother tongue teaching” (M. Kadirov et al.), “Theory of linguistics” (Z. Kholmanova, 2019), “Uzbek language” (M. Abdurahmanova et al. 2018), “Current Uzbek language” (R. Sayfullaeva et al. 2010), “Current Uzbek language” (R. Sayfullaeva et al. 2021) are actively used in the higher education system where textbooks and training manuals have been created.
Professors and teachers of the Department of Uzbek Linguistics have established relations with the world’s leading scientific schools in the field of philology, scientific and pedagogical cooperation with Ankara University (Turkey), Baku-Slavic University, Eurasian University named after Gumilev, National University named after Al Farabi and other scientific centers. work is underway. As a result of them, several international scientific conferences are held, language and literature are taught on the basis of joint programs.