Falcon-Emirati: An LLM That Learns the Emirati Dialect and Culture

It is a Falcon-family language model developed by Abu Dhabi's Technology Innovation Institute (TII), trained to understand Emirati dialect, culture, and local context.

General models are typically trained on broad Modern Standard Arabic or English corpora, while Falcon-Emirati focuses on Emirati dialect and local cultural expressions, improving accuracy in Emirati contexts.

Teams working with Emirati content or local audiences can try it via Hugging Face, but should benchmark it on their own use cases before production deployment.

The model was announced on the Hugging Face blog, where developers and organizations can access it.