Which of the following is NOT an official language of the United Nations?
There are six official languages of the United Nations. These are Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish. Most UN documents are issued in all six languages, requiring translation from the original language. A delegate may speak in any of the official UN languages. This is interpretated simultaneously into the other official languages. At times, a delegate may choose to make a statement in a non-official language. In such cases, the delegation must provide either a written text or a translation of the statement in one of the official UN languages.
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What are your thoughts on this subject?
46 Comments
Marie-Helene Benais
Chinese is not a language. Chinese people speak Mandarin (official language), Cantonese (Hong Kong) and many other dialects/languages.
Pam Folden
Chinese is not a language, Mandarin is.
chris j rillo
There is no "Chinese" language. There is Mandarin, Cantonese and sub dialects. This question is poorly phrased.
Bob Rodger
When speaking of languages, isn't Chinese either Mandarin or Cantonese? Are they the same? Do native Chinese understand both equally?
Steven Ernest Scott
William Lyons, *Aw
Linda White
And I suppose people from the Philippine's speak Philippino? Not so according to the native Phillipino's I know.
The Chinese people I met in China did not say they spoke Chinese but one of the multitude of separate languages of the area now called China. This would be like saying a Native American speaks Indian.
William Lyons
Awe, did you three get it wrong?
Corey Taylor
It was highly doubtful that it would be Japanese, seeing as the UN was created to prevent another conflict as destructive as WWII, of which Japan was one of the three instigators. Plus, Japanese is not nearly as widely spoken as the other choices.
jeff barker
Linda White, thought they did 😱
blharris
i didn't notice a Japanese flag in the picture
bcol
Don Markusic, Hail Hitler!
Jaimi McEntire
Mandarin is a term that English speakers use to mean the main dialect of the Chinese language (as opposed to Hokkien or Cantonese, for example). But The language is Chinese.
Don Markusic
Glad to see no German. After the atrocities the German people committed
In WW 2 . We shouldn’t have given them there Country back . By the way how come
they weren’t put into camps . Like the poor Japanese Americans were .
Peter Robertson
Mandarin is now the official language of China,so that,officially is Chinese!
Nic Irish
Chinese is not a language.
lmjmom
Got it.
gdwhitton
I guess that's like English and what we speak in the US of A which is kinda, sorta like English but a little different.
Bob Bracegirdle
Got it
ninakamwene
Got it
Helena Harris
Since when is Chinese a language?
Wendy Petty
The Chinese people of China but not the language huh? Pays to think before answering. Should have seen the herring
Pierre Poirier
Jerry Myers, where does it says USA in the f...... question ? Or in the answer ? And, sorry But the site of the UN says CHINESE is an official language of the UN. And, every f...... reasonable oerson will know they mean mandarion as it is the one spoken by most Chinese