Languages of the United Arab Emirates
Languages, writing systems and language context
Arabic is the official language of the United Arab Emirates under Article 7 of the Constitution. Other languages used by residents are kept separate from the nationwide official-language core on this page.
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Arabic · 28 characters
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What languages are used in the United Arab Emirates?
Arabic is the official language of the United Arab Emirates under Article 7 of the Constitution. Other languages used by residents are kept separate from the nationwide official-language core on this page.
What writing systems are used in the United Arab Emirates?
The represented writing system is Arabic and the primary direction shown is right to left.
Sources & methodology
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Primary constitutional source. Article 7 states that Arabic is the official language of the Union.
Localized country display-name reference. CLDR names are customary UI/display names, not claims about a state’s full constitutional long-form name.
Reference for the writing-system/script families represented in the character component.
Reference for left-to-right and right-to-left script direction and bidirectional text behavior.
Reference for Unicode character names used as small readout labels under selected character samples; these labels are not presented as a complete transliteration standard.