This is Samarkand, the "blue city" of Uzbekistan. The man on the left, clad in a beautiful cloak, is in the middle of his work. He is working on a piece of calligraphy, written in Arabic characters.
Don't you think that calligraphy is a culture of the Kanji-speaking world?
Arabic calligraphy has a history of more than 1,000 years, developed through the pursuit of how to beautifully write the Islamic scripture, the Koran.
When one thinks of the country's writing system, one might imagine the Latin or Cyrillic alphabet. However, the orthography of the Uzbek language has often been changed from Arabic to Latin to Cyrillic.
It may be interesting to review Uzbekistan, which has adopted various vocabulary from Persian, Arabic, and Russian, in terms of script and language.
Learn about the speech situation in Kyrgyzstan, Central Asia → "Speech Control in Central Asia"