Uzbek

Uzbek is a Turkic language primarily spoken in Uzbekistan, Central Asia, with communities in neighboring countries. It uses a Latin alphabet since the early 2000s, though historically it employed Cyrillic and Arabic scripts. Uzbek is characterized by vowel harmony and agglutinative grammar, meaning words are formed by adding various suffixes to roots to express different meanings and grammatical functions. It shares similarities with other Turkic languages like Turkish and Kazakh but also has unique phonetic and lexical features influenced by Persian, Russian, and Arabic due to historical interactions. Uzbek is the official language of Uzbekistan and an integral part of its cultural identity.