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equally favourable working conditions and resources. The resolution noted with concern that the multilingual development of the UN website had improved at a much slower rate than expected. The drive to improve parity and focus on multilingualism continued throughout the 2010s and led to the United Nations news and media website (
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In 2010, the UN's Department of Public Information announced an initiative of six "language days" to be observed throughout the year, one for each official language, with the goal of celebrating linguistic diversity and learning about the importance of cross-cultural communication. In 2020 Portuguese
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In 1980, the General Assembly got rid of this final distinction, making Arabic an official and working language of all its committees and subcommittees, as of 1 January 1982. At the same time, the GA requested the Security Council to include Arabic among its official and working languages, and the
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The following year, the second session of the General Assembly adopted permanent rules of procedure, Resolution 173 (II). The part of those rules relating to language closely followed the 1946 rules, except that the 1947 rules did not purport to apply to other UN organs, just the General Assembly.
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On 8 June 2007, resolutions concerning human resources management at the UN, the General Assembly had emphasized "the paramount importance of the equality of the six official languages of the United Nations" and requested that the secretary-general "ensure that vacancy announcements specified the
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The secretary-general's most recent report on multilingualism was issued on 4 October 2010. In response, on 19 July 2011, the General Assembly adopted Resolution No. A/RES/65/311 on multilingualism, calling on the secretary-general, once again, to ensure that all six official languages are given
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In 2001, the United Nations drew criticism for relying too heavily on English, and not enough on the other five official languages and Spanish-speaking member nations formally brought this to the attention of the secretary-general. Additionally, there was a movement to consider adding official
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Inclusion of Mandarin among the working languages of the General Assembly, its committees and its subcommittees and inclusion of Arabic among the official and the working languages of the General Assembly and its Main Committees: amendments to rules 51 to 59 of the rules of procedure of the
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In June 2022, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution on multilingualism that encouraged UN organizations to disseminate important communication and messages in official as well as non-official languages, similar to the semi-official policies proposed to Kofi Annan and
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responded to these criticisms that full parity of the six official languages was unachievable within current budgetary restraints, but he nevertheless attached great importance to improving the linguistic balance and worked to increase parity between the existing 6 official languages.
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The six official languages are also used for the dissemination of official documents. Generally, the texts in each of the six languages are equally authoritative. Most UN councils use all six languages as official and working languages; however, as of 2023 the
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to add another official language, various individuals and states have informally raised the possibility of adding a new official language to accommodate more of the world's population. It has been noted that the six official languages are mostly spoken in the
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Inclusion of Russian among the working languages of the General Assembly (amendment to rule 51 of the rules of procedure of the General Assembly) and question of including Russian and Spanish among the working languages of the Security Council (21 December
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which is exclusively French speaking and has 54 members. All other international bodies in commerce, transport and sport have tended to the adoption of one or a few languages as the means of communication. This is usually English and French (see:
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Use of Arabic in the subsidiary organs of the General Assembly, in the Security Council and in the Economic and Social Council: amendments to rules 51, 52, 54 and 56 of the rules of procedure of the Assembly (17 December
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In 2007, it was reported that the government of India would "make immediate diplomatic moves to seek the status of an official language for Hindi at the United Nations". According to a 2009 press release from its
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The Indonesian Ministry of Education and Culture (Kemendikbud) has increasingly promoted Indonesian as an international language, with one targets aiming for official UN language status by 2045.
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Meanwhile, a proposal had been in the works to add Spanish as a third working language in addition to English and French. This was adopted in Resolution 262 (III), passed on 11 December 1948.
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of 2.8 billion people on the planet, less than half of the world population. The six languages are official languages in almost two-thirds of United Nations member states (over 120 states).
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In 2008 and 2009, resolutions of the General Assembly have urged the Secretariat to respect the parity of the six official languages, especially in the dissemination of public information.
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has more than 550 million speakers in India alone, of whom 422 million are native, 98.2 million are second language speakers, and 31.2 million are third language speakers. Hindi is the
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UN independent agencies have their own sets of official languages that sometimes are different from that of the principal UN organs. For example, the General Conference of
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as Coordinator for Multilingualism. This responsibility was in addition to Tharoor's role as under-secretary-general for communications and public information, head of the
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As of 1983, the Security Council (like the General Assembly) recognized six official and working languages: Arabic, English, French, Mandarin, Russian, and Spanish.
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selected these original five languages because in addition to being utilized by the League of Nations, they were also the de facto official languages of the major
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is usually adopted across Muslim nation groups. Most of non-Arab Africa is either Francophone or Anglophone because of their imperial past, but there is also a
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In 1968, Russian was added as a working language of the General Assembly so that, of the GA's five official languages, four (all but Mandarin) were working.
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In a 1999 resolution, the General Assembly requested the secretary-general to "appoint a senior Secretariat official as coordinator of questions relating to
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that the Bengali language should be made one of the official languages of the UN. This was backed by a resolution adopted unanimously by the assembly of the
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to promote the concept of international official languages to foster communication and spur global diplomacy in the aftermath of the brutality of
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For the United Nations to select a language to be official, a majority of the 193 members need to vote in favor of it. Afterward, it is up to the
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need for either of the working languages of the Secretariat, unless the functions of the post required a specific working language".
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Inclusion of Arabic among the official and the working languages of the General Assembly and its Main Committees (18 December 1973)
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adopted rules of procedure concerning languages that purported to apply to "all the organs of the United Nations, other than the
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languages or creating a grouping of semi-official languages for languages with over 50 million speakers. This did not happen.
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With between 150 and 200 million speakers, the Swahili lexicon is similar to that of other eastern Bantu languages such as
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respective country (or countries) of the new language to help financially support translation and interpretation services.
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in the world, with over 279 million inhabitants of which the majority speak Indonesian, which makes it one of the most
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Inclusion of Mandarin among the working languages of the General Assembly and the Security Council (18 December 1973)
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The Concise Oxford English Dictionary, twelfth edition, is the current authority for spelling in the United Nations.
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Language Day was added and in 2022 Swahili Language Day was added. The days and their historical significance are:
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which is official and spoken in Pakistan and together they are often considered the same language, referred to as
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or Hindi–Urdu. Although very similar verbally, they do have different written scripts; Hindi is written in the
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These five languages were chosen in 1946 as official languages around when the United Nations was founded:
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have advocated for greater recognition of their language, which is widely spoken across four continents:
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was created. Portuguese and Swahili are the only non-official UN languages to have a UN Language Day.
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Mikael Parkvall, "Världens 100 största språk 2007" (The World's 100 Largest Languages in 2007), in
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Uri Tadmor (2008). "Grammatical borrowing in Indonesian". In Yaron Matras; Jeanette Sakel (eds.).
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Recognition of Bahasa Indonesia as an official language of the General Conferention of UNESCO
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was created in addition to the UN Language Day's associated with the six official languages.
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International Decade for a Culture of Peace and Non-Violence for the Children of the World
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in the multilingual Indonesian archipelago for centuries. Indonesia is the fourth most
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stated his firm support for the inclusion of Hindi as an official language of the UN.
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has ten official languages including Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, and Portuguese. The
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In 1973, the General Assembly made Mandarin a working language and switched to using
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Top UN official stresses need for Internet multilingualism to bridge digital divide
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region. Swahili, known as Kiswahili by its speakers, is an official language of
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and the GA recognizes the efforts of the UN to use non-official languages too.
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list of international organisations which have French as an official language
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This language was later voted to be an additional official language in 1973:
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was appointed Coordinator for Multilingualism, effective 6 September 2001.
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from any official language into the other five official languages, via the
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Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners (the Mandela Rules)
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United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (2023),
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has four official languages: Arabic, English, French, and Spanish.
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to include Arabic among its official languages, by 1 January 1983.
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which is exclusively English speaking and has 56 members, and the
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As of June 2018, the media branch of the United Nations, UN News (
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Standard Minimum Rules for the Administration of Juvenile Justice
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Article 36 of The 1945 Constitution of The Republic of Indonesia
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that are either supra-regional or supercentral according to the
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The Indonesian Language: Its History and Role in Modern Society
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as the fourth official language of the United Nations in 1973).
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and therefore many of the proposed languages are spoken in the
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as an additional language of the League but that was rejected.
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In September 2011, during a meeting with UN Secretary-General
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throughout eastern Africa and is especially prevalent in the
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The next largest international grouping after the UN is the
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languages in the world. Indonesian is considered the 11th
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recognized as an official language of the UN. In 2015,
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Six international languages used by the United Nations
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Questions relating to information (5 December 2008).
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The six official languages spoken at the UN are the
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as a unifying language for independence struggles.)
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It is one of the official languages of 371:, its constituent document signed at the 4897:Languages of international organizations 4188:Conference on International Organization 1299:has just one official language, French. 747:most spoken native language in the world 693:most spoken native language in the world 603:Translation of UN News Website Available 34:official languages of the United Nations 4103:Office international d'hygiène publique 1429: 157: 3898:Spokesperson for the Secretary-General 2408:from the original on 29 September 2010 2356:from the original on 28 September 2010 403:plus French which was the language of 4917:Language policy in the United Nations 4812:UN television film series (1964–1966) 4564:International Narcotics Control Board 4495:Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty 4283:Declaration on the Rights of Peasants 4254:Convention on the Rights of the Child 4232:Universal Declaration of Human Rights 2972:from the original on 20 November 2010 2326:from the original on 21 December 2016 2170:from the original on 26 February 2019 2003:from the original on 27 February 2020 1544:from the original on 26 February 2019 1465:"What Are The Official UN Languages?" 1177:: 18 December (the date on which the 664:. 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