United Arab Emirates Language
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It is very difficult to define a language and to figure out the exact number of languages that exist in the world. It is usually said that the number of languages in the world vary from 3,000 and 8,000. |
The United Arab Emirates is known as the land of Etiquettes. And the people there expect there visitors to be well manners and soft spoken. If etiquettes are a part of the UAE culture then it means for sure that the official language of the country has to be very sweet too. This is absolutely right; the official language of the UAE is Arabic. Arabic is a Central Semitic Language. This means it is related to other Semitic Languages like Hebrew and the Neo-Aramaic languages. Arabic is spoken as a first language by than 280 Million people and more than 250 Million people as their second language. It is one of the sweetest languages that we have. Also, the other languages from Islam have borrowed many words from Arabic.
Apart from Arabic being the official language of the United Arab Emirates there are other languages too which are quite popular, for example-Hindi, English, Persian and Urdu. The medium of education impartment is Arabic while emphasis being on English as a second language. Nearly all the citizens of the United Arab Emirates are Muslims. The number of languages listed for the UAE is 7. They are named as Arabic; Gulf Spoken, Arabic; Muslim Spoken, Arabic; standard, Balochi; Southern, Farsi; Western, Pashto; Northern, Pashto; Southern.
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