The official languages of the United Nations are the six languages that are used in UN meetings, and in which all official UN documents are written when budget allows.
They are:
Arabic
Chinese
English
French
Russian
Spanish
Other Important facts:
These languages are used at meetings of various UN organs, particularly the General Assembly, the Economic and Social Council, and the Security Council.
Each representative of a country may speak in any one of these six languages, or may speak in any language and provide interpretation into one of the six official languages.
The UN provides simultaneous interpretation from the official language into the other five official languages, via the United Nations Interpretation Service.
The six official languages are also used for the dissemination of official documents.
Until a document is available in all six official languages, it is not published.
Generally, the texts in each of the six languages are equally authoritative.
The six official languages spoken at the UN are the first or second language of 2.8 billion people on the planet, less than half of the world population.
The six languages are official languages in more than half the nations in the world.
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