The official languages of the United Nations are the six languages used in United Nations (UN) meetings and in which the UN writes all its official documents.[1]
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 respective country (or countries) of the new language to help financially support translation and interpretation services.[citation needed][2][better source needed]
These five languages were chosen in 1946 as official languages around when the United Nations was founded:
This language was later voted to be an additional official language in 1973:
Title Universal Declaration of Human Rights: translation into Chinese {...} Language(s) 中文 (Chinese){...}Alternate names: Beifang Fangyan, Guanhua, Guoyu, Hanyu, Huayu, Mandarin, Northern Chinese, Putonghua, Standard Chinese, Zhongguohua, Zhongwen
The Concise Oxford English Dictionary, twelfth edition, is the current authority for spelling in the United Nations.
© MMXXIII Rich X Search. We shall prevail. All rights reserved. Rich X Search