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The UN has six official languages: Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish.The Secretariat uses two working languages, English and French.
When the UN was founded, five official languages were chosen: English, French, Chinese, Russian and Spanish. Arabic was added in 1973. Controversy exists over whether the number of official languages should be reduced (for example to English only) or whether the list of languages should be expanded. There is growing pressure to add Hindi as the seventh official language. In 2001, Spanish-speaking countries complained that Spanish does not have equal status compared to English.[10] There is a strenuous resistance against downgrading the status of the French language in the organization.[11]; every Secretary General of the United Nations thus far has spoken French and the apparent difficulty of Current Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon to do so fluently in his first press conference[12] was considered a faux pas.[13]
The UN standard for English language documents (United Nations Editorial Manual) follows British usage. The UN and all other organisations that are part of the UN system use 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.
Of the official languages of the UN, English is an official language in 52 of its members, French in 29, Arabic in 24, Spanish in 20, Russian in 4, and Chinese in 2.
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