Uzbek. Spoken in Uzbekistan and the surrounding area by around 20 million. More at Wikipedia and Omniglot.
An interesting video special by Voice of America (VOA) on YouTube. Actually relating to our last post on Kyrgyz, this video features a famous Kyrgyz author, Chingiz Aytmatov, but has been prepared for Uzbek speakers. Uzbek is unfortunately kind of lacking resources but that shouldn’t stop anyone from learning this very interesting language! There’s a five-lesson beginning course at I Kinda Like Languages here.
I love Uzbek! Enjoy, Brian










