The Black Africans of United Arab Emirates, numbering approximately 31,000 people, are Engaged yet Unreached. They are described as a Swahili ethnolinguistic community of the East African coast. They speak Swahili, are predominantly Muslim, and maintain a distinct maritime culture shaped by African, Arab, and Indian Ocean connections They are an Diaspora people, with Swahili as their ethnic/kinship group and are in the Bantu, Swahili people cluster of the Sub-Saharan African Peoples. They mostly adhere to Sunni Islam and Swahili (individual language) is their primary language.