Country Info

United Arab Emirates Languages

Below you can see all the written languages used in this country. View All Countries for the list of all world countries, or All Languages for all the written languages of the world.

There are 5,465,232 people (90% of United Arab Emirates) that can read or write at least one language.

5 Writing Systems used in United Arab Emirates

Arabic (Arabic)

ar-arab
language code
4,736,534
people

Malayalam (Malayalam)

ml-mlym
language code
425,073
people

Pashto (Arabic)

ps-arab
language code
176,101
people

Baluchi (Arabic)

bal-arab
language code
139,667
people

Persian (Arabic)

fa-arab
language code
115,377
people

References

Our data is sourced from a number of places. We use ISO639 codes for the country codes. The language code we are showing is non-standard and combines the language short name with the script shortname. The population numbers, country names and script names come from the Unicode CLDR dataset.

  1. Unicode CLDR