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Emirati Arabic (Arabic: اللهجة الإماراتية, romanized: al-Lahjah al-Imārātīyah) refers to a group of Arabic dialectal varieties spoken by the Emiratis native to the United Arab Emirates that share core characteristics with specific phonological, lexical, and morphosyntactic features and a certain degree of intra-dialectal variation, which is mostly geographically defined.
Dubai [a] is the most populous city in the United Arab Emirates and the capital of the Emirate of Dubai, the most populated of the country's seven emirates. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] [ 7 ] The city has a population of around 3.79 million (as of 2024), [ 8 ] more than 90% of which are expatriates .
Places involved in the history of the Arab world and the Arabic names given to them. Places whose official names include an Arabic form. Places whose names originate from the Arabic language. All names are in Standard Arabic and academically transliterated. Most of these names are used in modern times, but many of these Arabic forms are not in ...
Country All-numeric date format Details Official standard YMD DMY MDY Afghanistan: Yes: Yes: No: Short format: d/m/yyyy (Year first, month, and day in right-to-left writing direction) Long format: yyyy mmmm d (Day first, full month name, and year in right-to-left writing direction) Åland: Yes: Yes: No: Short format: yyyy-mm-dd Long format: d ...
Gulf Arabic or Khaleeji (خليجي Ḵalījī local pronunciation: [χɑˈliːdʒiː] or اللهجة الخليجية il-lahja il-Ḵalījīya, local pronunciation: [(ɪ)lˈlæhdʒæ lχɑˈliːdʒiːjæ]) is a variety of the Arabic language spoken in Eastern Arabia [2] around the coasts of the Persian Gulf in Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, southern Iraq, [3] eastern Saudi ...
The United Arab Emirates [c] (UAE), or simply the Emirates, [d] is a country in West Asia, in the Middle East, at the eastern end of the Arabian Peninsula.It is a federal, elective monarchy composed of seven emirates, with Abu Dhabi as its capital. [16]
Emirati music varies to each area although most are on folklore's, some cultural dances are the Harbiya which is well known all over the United Arab Emirates. The Al-Ayyalah" or "Yowla," is a traditional Emirati folk dance that holds significant cultural importance in the United Arab Emirates and other parts of the Arabian Peninsula. It is ...
Debate exists over the extent of Arabic in Eritrea; the government position is that the language was introduced by the British and is only in use by a professional elite and the Rashaida minority, whereas others have taken the view the language acts as the lingua franca of the country's Muslims. [5] Eritrea is an observer state in the Arab League.