Falcon-Emirati: When an LLM Learns the Dialect, the Culture, and the Nuance
Hugging Face
Falcon-Emirati-7B was released as a Falcon-H1-Arabic-based LLM specialized for understanding and generating Emirati Arabic rather than defaulting to Modern Standard Arabic. It scored 84.83% on the Alyah Emirati-dialect benchmark and, in open-ended judging, returned in Emirati dialect with a 0.52 partial-credit dialect-fidelity score versus 0.05 for the next best model. The result is that models using this approach better match Emirati tone and cultural nuance across Alyah categories, and they more reliably switch registers when asked in Emirati.