What are the 5 official languages spoken by the United Nations aka the U.N?

Question

What are the 5 official languages spoken by the United Nations aka the U.N?

Answer 1

english, swahili, french, chinese and arabic.

Answer 2

Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, and Spanish (so there are 6).

The "Big 5", or nations with veto-power in the security council, might be what you're thinking of. These are the US, UK, France, Russia, and China.

Answer 3

Doesn't matter, it's all just babble.

Answer 4

English, French, German, Chinese, Spanish

Answer 5

The UN has six official languages: Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish.Five of the official languages were chosen when the UN was founded (the languages of the permanent members of the Security Council, plus Spanish, which was the official language of the largest number of nations at the time). Arabic was added in 1973; the number of Arabic-speaking member states had increased substantially since 1945, and the 1973 oil crisis provided the catalyst for the addition. The Secretariat uses two working languages, English and French.

There is controversy over whether the number of official languages should be reduced (for example to English only) or expanded. In 2001, Spanish-speaking countries complained that Spanish does not have equal status compared to English. There is also pressure to add Hindi as a seventh official language. There is strong resistance against downgrading the status of French; every Secretary-General so far has spoken French and the apparent difficulty of current Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon to do so fluently in his first press conference was considered a faux pas.

The UN standard for English language documents (United Nations Editorial Manual) follows British usage and Oxford spelling. The UN standard for Chinese (Mandarin) changed when the Republic of China (Taiwan) was succeeded by the People's Republic of China in 1971. From 1945 until 1971 traditional characters were used, and since 1971 simplified characters have been used.

Answer 6

English, Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian, and Spanish.

http://www.un.org/

Answer 7

French, German, Italian, American, Arabic. Just a guess. Idk.