The official and national language of Uzbekistan is Uzbek. It belongs to the Turkic language family. Karakalpak, another Turkic language, is recognized with official status in the western autonomous region of Karakalpakstan, where roughly half a million people speak it. About one-seventh of Uzbekistan’s population speaks Russian. Although Uzbeks comprise over four-fifths of the population, other ethnic groups, such as Tajiks, Kazakhs, Tatars, and Karakalpaks, also reside in Uzbekistan.
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