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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.
A language that uniquely represents the national identity of a state, nation, and/or country and is so designated by a country's government; some are technically minority languages. (On this page a national language is followed by parentheses that identify it as a national language status.) Some countries have more than one language with this ...
Language situation was reflected in each republic's constitution, and more detailed in communal constitutions. [1] Yugoslavia established its language policies at the federal, republic, and communal levels. Federal language policy was drafted by the following four principles: [1] Domestic measures were the basis of language policy.
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 ...
For many languages which have become extinct in recent centuries, attestation of usage is datable in the historical record, and sometimes the terminal speaker is identifiable. In other cases, historians and historical linguists may infer an estimated date of extinction from other events in the history of the sprachraum .
Other nations have declared non-indigenous official languages. Many of the world's constitutions mention one or more official or national languages. [5] [6] Some countries use the official language designation to empower indigenous groups by giving them access to the government in their native languages. In countries that do not formally ...
Indeed, the prominent Norwegian linguist Finn-Erik Vinje characterizes this influx since the Second World War as a breaking wave. [13] There is further a concern in some quarters that poor grammar and usage is becoming more commonplace in the written press and broadcast media, and consequently among students and the general population.