Language/Northern-uzbek/Culture/Direct-and-Indirect-speech

Direct and Indirect speech in Uzbek

Saying exactly what someone has said is called direct speech. Indirect speech doesn't use quotation marks to enclose what the person said and it doesn’t have to be word by word. See the following table how direct speech is converted into indirect speech in Uzbek.

Source

https://slaviccenters.duke.edu/sites/slaviccenters.duke.edu/files/file-attachments/uzbek.original.pdf