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The Official Language of the Umayyad Courts in Damascus, Syria and Cordoba, Spain was Proper Arabic (Fus-ha). There were a large number of Mawali (non-Arab Moslems) in both Umayyad Caliphates, but their culture and languages were sidelined for Arabic.

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