Or is it a question of strength, I’ve heard old Liang speak before, language as an important part of human communication, there is no good or bad, only the interests of the points, just like why are now learning English? Because learning English is so useful, why do they all learn Mandarin? Because learning Mandarin to make money to do business with more, the country region, the world is even more so, if one day our country can shoulder the United States or even surpass the United States, then the Chinese language will also be the world’s universal language more, although the Chinese language is the most difficult, but to borrow a phrase Yu Zecheng said, money to earn, there will be people working hard.
Chinese is the essence of human culture, Chinese is profound. Chinese characters resemble shapes and will be meaningful. Each Chinese character is like a simple brush stroke painting. The meaning of Chinese characters is deep and wide, and most of them have a history and an allusion. Japanese is derived from the Chinese language, which is a descendant of the Chinese language, and is certainly not a world language, let alone a working language of the United Nations.
To sum up: Japan is only an economic powerhouse, and has only just moved into a political powerhouse, so in terms of politics Japan has no weight, the official languages of the five permanent members are enough to monopolize a large part of the world’s population, plus the Arab world and the more widely used Spanish, and the rest have no weight at all!
There are currently six working languages of the United Nations: Chinese, English, French, Russian, Spanish and Arabic.
Chinese: United Nations
English: United Nations
French: Organisation des Nations Unies
Russian: Организация Объединённых Наций
Spanish: Organización de las Naciones Unidas
Arabic: الأممم المتحدة
In the daily proceedings and documents of the United Nations, those six languages are used, but not the others.
In fact, when the UN was first established, there were only five official languages, neither Arabic nor Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish. The first four of these languages were the official languages of the five permanent members, and the P5 had a supreme position in the union.
As the five victorious countries in World War II, the P5 monopolize one-third of the seats in the UN Security Council, and the P5 seats are “hereditary”, is a fixed seat, and has the right to veto, is the absolute core of the United Nations, these five national languages naturally become the working language of the United Nations.
Spanish is the second most spoken language in the world, after Chinese, and the second most widely spoken language in the world, after English, with 23 countries and regions around the world using Spanish as an official language.
Spanish is spoken in all but a few countries in Latin America, including Brazil, Guyana, French Guiana, Haiti, and Suriname, and is also spoken by large numbers of Latinos in California, New Mexico, and Texas in the western United States.
The Spanish language is so widely used mainly due to the expansion of the Spanish Empire abroad back in those years, and as the world’s first sunset empire, Spain at its peak controlled half of the Americas, even the Philippines in Asia was a Spanish colony (although the Philippines switched to English after it was occupied by the United States).
Due to the large number of Spanish-speaking countries, Spanish was also made an official language of the United Nations at its inception.
As for Arabic, it became the official working language of the UN by 1973. At that time, the first oil crisis broke out, and the Western countries were in demand from the Arab oil-producing countries, so the oil-producing countries of the Gulf took the opportunity to embrace the other Arab countries, and finally succeeded in sending Arabic to the UN.
However, although the same as the working languages of the United Nations, but the United Nations usually operate mainly in English, 80% of the current United Nations documents are written in English, followed by French and Spanish, the vast majority of all the original documents of the United Nations are written in these three languages. Chinese, Russian, and Arabic, on the other hand, account for only a very small portion of the UN’s original documents.
Ultimately, with the United Nations being an outgrowth of World War II, it is indisputable that the language of the five major powers, China, the United States, Britain, France and Russia, as the victorious nations, was naturally going to be the working language of the UN. Spanish and Arabic, on the other hand, by virtue of their large number of speakers and countries, also became the working languages of the Security Council.
And like Japanese and German, although their influence is also greater, and Japan and Germany are also the world’s leading powers today, Japan and Germany, as defeated countries in World War II, their political status in international affairs is relatively low. Even though Germany’s status is much improved now, it has to be tied up with France to speak with more weight on many issues. Contrast this with Japan’s political status, which is even lower than Germany’s.
In addition to this, the languages of Japan and Germany are not widely spoken in the world other than in their own countries, although German is also used in Austria, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland and other countries, but a few countries do not have much power, while Japanese is only used in Japan, which makes Japan and Germany lack allies.
Overall, it is unlikely that any new language will ever become an official working language of the United Nations, not German and certainly not Japanese.
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