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Languages of United Arab Emirates

Ittihad al-Imarat al-Arabiyah, UAE. Formerly called Trucial States. 4,104,000. National or official language: Standard Arabic. Literacy rate: 68%–78%. Immigrant languages: Bengali (70,000), Danish (160), Eastern Panjabi, Egyptian Spoken Arabic (100,000), English (100), French (250), Goan Konkani, Greek (100), Hindi, Italian (400), Japanese (1,300), Malay, Malayalam (300,000), Omani Spoken Arabic (80,000), Polish (100), Serbian (100), Sinhala (25,000), Somali (46,400), Soqotri (7,000), Standard German (1,300), Swahili (2,500), Swedish (110), Tagalog (80,000), Tamil, Telugu, Thai (3,000), Turkish (750), Urdu, Western Panjabi. Information mainly from T. Sebeok 1970. Deaf population: 109,218. The number of individual languages listed for United Arab Emirates is 7. Of those, all are living languages.
Arabic, Gulf Spoken

[afb] 744,000 in United Arab Emirates. Gulf Bedu or village peoples. Alternate names: Gulf Arabic, Khaliji.  Classification: Afro-Asiatic, Semitic, Central, South, Arabic 
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Arabic, Shihhi Spoken

[ssh] 5,000 in United Arab Emirates (1995). Population total all countries: 27,000. Musandam Peninsula. Also in Oman. Alternate names: Al-Shihuh, Shihhi, Shihu, Shihuh.  Classification: Afro-Asiatic, Semitic, Central, South, Arabic 
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Arabic, Standard

[arb]  Middle East, North Africa. Classification: Afro-Asiatic, Semitic, Central, South, Arabic 
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Balochi, Southern

[bcc] 100,000 in United Arab Emirates.  Alternate names: Baloci, Baluchi, Baluci.  Dialects: Makrani (Lotuni).  Classification: Indo-European, Indo-Iranian, Iranian, Western, Northwestern, Balochi 
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Farsi, Western

[pes] 80,000 in United Arab Emirates (1986).  Alternate names: Persian.  Classification: Indo-European, Indo-Iranian, Iranian, Western, Southwestern, Persian 
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Pashto, Northern

[pbu] 100,000 in United Arab Emirates (1986).  Alternate names: Pakhtoo, Pashtu, Passtoo, Pushto, Pusto.  Classification: Indo-European, Indo-Iranian, Iranian, Eastern, Southeastern, Pashto 
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Pashto, Southern

[pbt] 26,100 in United Arab Emirates (2000).  Alternate names: Afghan, Pakhtoo, Pakhtu, Paktu.  Classification: Indo-European, Indo-Iranian, Iranian, Eastern, Southeastern, Pashto 
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