Salom!
say it: “sah-LOHM”
Uzbek
in its own words: oʻzbekcha
- Speakers
- 35 million (estimate)
- Family
- Turkic
- Vitality
- Safe
- Where it is spoken
- Afghanistan, People's Republic of China, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan
- Script
- Latin, Cyrillic, Arabic
- Official language
- Uzbekistan, Afghanistan (regional)
Fun fact
Uzbek is the most widely spoken Turkic language after Turkish.