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Emiratis

Эмиратцы

language area per Glottologcensus counts
825,495
United Arab Emirates, census 2005 (citizenship)
Afro-Asiatic
language family (Glottolog)

In brief

The largest documented number lives in United Arab Emirates: 825,495 people in the 2005 census.

Main language: Gulf Arabic. Glottolog classifies it in the Afro-Asiatic family.

Where they live: census figures

Each figure comes from the country's official census. Censuses define belonging differently (self-identification, citizenship, mother tongue, ancestry); the type is given on each row.

United Arab Emirates2005 · citizenship · «Nationals (Emirati)» · [1]
825,495

Languages and their lineage

Gulf Arabic

  1. Afro-Asiaticafro1255
  2. Semiticsemi1276
  3. West Semiticwest2786
  4. Central Semiticcent2236
  5. Arabianarab1394
  6. Arabicarab1395
  7. Arabian Peninsula Arabicarab1393
  8. North Arabian Beduin Arabicnort3402
  9. Gulf Arabicgulf1241

People-to-language links: Wikidata (properties P103 and P2936), checked against ISO 639-3 codes. Language classification: Glottolog 5.3.

Peoples of the same language family

EgyptiansMoroccansOromoAmharaSaudisJordaniansHausaLibyansSomalisTigray peopleOmanisGurage peoplePalestiniansAfar peopleTuareg AmazighsBahrainisQatarisJewish peopleArabsIraqisAssyriansLebaneseAlgeriansMauritanians

Sources

  1. National Bureau of Statistics, Ministry of Economy (UAE); mirrored by GLMM. UAE: Population by nationality (Emirati/non-Emirati) at census dates (1975-2005) and 2010 estimate. https://gulfmigration.grc.net/uae-population-by-nationality-emirati-non-emirati-at-census-…
  2. Hammarström H., Forkel R., Haspelmath M., Bank S. (2026). Glottolog 5.3. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. glottolog.org (CC BY 4.0)