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The Uzbek language is the official and national language of Uzbekistan, spoken by 44 million people as either a native or second language. It is a member of the Turkic language family within the Altaic language group and is spoken in Uzbekistan, eastern Turkmenistan, northern and western regions of Afghanistan, and northwestern parts of Tajikistan. Uzbek consists of two distantly related languages: Northern and Southern Uzbek, which are distinct languages with their own speakers. The language is agglutinative, similar to Turkish, and is one of the most studied languages among those of the former USSR in Russia. Uzbek and Russian are the most commonly spoken languages in Uzbekistan.
