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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. [72] For example, the General Conference of UNESCO has ten official languages including Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, and Portuguese. [73] The Universal Postal Union has just one official language, French. [74]
Under the Charter, the official languages are Chinese, English, French, Russian, Spanish as well as Arabic which was added in 1973. Portuguese is the only unofficial language to have its day (May 5) proclaimed as "World Day". [5] See also: Official languages of the United Nations. Universal Postal Union (UPU) French (official) and English ...
UNESCO has official relations with 322 international non-governmental organizations (NGOs). [93] Most of these are what UNESCO calls "operational"; a select few are "formal". [ 94 ] The highest form of affiliation to UNESCO is "formal associate", and the 22 NGOs [ 95 ] with formal associate (ASC) relations occupying offices at UNESCO are:
Under Indonesian rule from 1976 to 1999, Indonesian was designated as the official language of Timor Leste. It has the status of a working language under the country's constitution along with English. [8] [17]: 3 [18] In November 2023, the Indonesian language was recognized as one of the official languages of the UNESCO General Conference.
In 1954, the United Nations — through UNESCO — granted official support to Esperanto as an international auxiliary language in the Montevideo Resolution. [41] However, Esperanto is not one of the six official languages of the UN. [42] The development of Esperanto has continued unabated into the 21st century. [43]
Burkina Faso (a national language along with Fula, Mossi and other languages, the official language is French) Dogon : Mali (a national language along with Bambara , Bomu , Bozo , Fula , Mamara , Songhay , Soninke , Syenara , Tamasheq , the official language is French )
This is a list of countries by number of languages according to the 22nd edition of Ethnologue (2019). [ 1 ] Papua New Guinea has the largest number of languages in the world.
The United Nations General Assembly proclaimed 2008 as the International Year of Languages, pursuant to a resolution of UNESCO. [1] The resolution also reaffirmed the need to achieve full parity among the six official languages on United Nations websites.