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Official languages of the United Nations
There are six official languages used in United Nations (UN) meetings and in which the UN writes and publishes all its official documents. In 1946, five languages were chosen as official languages of the UN: English, French, Russian, Spanish, and Chinese. In 1971, the United Nations' use of Traditional Chinese characters was replaced with Simplified Chinese characters. In 1973, Arabic was voted to be an additional official language. As of 2026, the official languages of the United Nations are: English (British English with Oxford spelling), in English Latin alphabet; French (Metropolitan French – français métropolitain / langues d'oïl) in French Latin alphabet; Spanish (Peninsular Spanish – español peninsular / castellano) in Spanish Latin alphabet; Russian (Moscow Russian – московское произношение, moskovskoye proiznosheniye) in the Russian Cyrillic alphabet; Chinese (Standard Mandarin – 中文, zhōngwén / 普通话, pǔtōnghuà) in Simplified Chinese characters; Arabic (Modern Standard Arabic –...
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