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These languages included Bengali, Hindi, Persian, Portuguese, Swahili, and Urdu and the GA recognizes the efforts of the UN to use non-official languages too. [29] In July 2022, UN Swahili Language Day was created. [30] Portuguese and Swahili are the only non-official UN languages to have a UN Language Day.
United Nations (UN/ONU) 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)
India in the state of Tamil Nadu and Pondicherry (with 21 other languages, and with [[ Hindi and English language as the link language and official language of Union) Singapore (with English , Chinese and Malay ) [ 25 ]
The United Nations issues most of its official documents in its six working languages: Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish.Many are also issued in German, which in 1973 gained the status of "documentation language" and has its own translation unit at the UN.
This is a list of official languages by country and territory. It includes all languages that have official language status either statewide or in a part of the state, or that have status as a national language , regional language , or minority language .
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.
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Arabic (alongside English) was an official language in South Sudan from 1863 (these days a part of Egypt Eyalet (1517–1867)) until 2011 (that time the independent state Republic of South Sudan), when the former government canceled Arabic as an official language. Since 2011 English is the sole official language of South Sudan.