The article examines the issues of the functioning of the Uzbek language in modern Uzbekistan. It is noted that the level of proficiency in the Uzbek language still leaves much to be desired. Despite the status of the state language, even native speakers do not always speak it perfectly, sometimes they do not know the rules of grammar and speak its dialect variants. The percentage of Uzbek proficiency among those for whom it is not native remains extremely low. How the Uzbek language is used in society, why not everyone speaks it and what awaits it next — this is an incomplete list of questions that the author analyzes.