The Working Languages of the UN 联合国工作语言介绍.pptx

The Working Languages of the United Nations By Ginny 1361016 There’re six working languages in the UN. English French Russian Spanish Arabic Chinese English English is a West Germanic language(印欧语系中的西日耳曼语支) that was first spoken in early medieval England and is now a global lingua franca. It is the third-most-common native language in the world, after Mandarin Chinese  and  Spanish. Dialects of English Mainly in Europe and Oceania. French French is a Romance language, belonging to the Indo-European family(印欧语系). It descended from the spoken Latin language of the Roman Empire. There’re two kinds of French , one is Meridional French , the other one is Quebec French. Dialects of French Russian It is the most geographically widespread language of Eurasia(欧亚大陆). It is also the largest native language in Europe. Russian is the eighth most spoken language in the world by number of native speakers and the seventh by total number of speakers. Dialects of Russian Spanish Spanish is one of the Romance languages that came from the Latin language. It is the most common Romance language. Most of the countries that have Spanish as an official language are in the Americas, which make up Latin America. Dialects of Spanish Arabic Arabic belongs to the Afro-Asiatic  family(亚非语系). Around 250 million people use it for their first language.  On purely linguistic grounds Arabic would likely be considered to constitute more than one language, but for political and religious reasons they are commonly grouped together as a single language. Dialects of Arabic Chinese Chinese belongs to a branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family(汉藏语系). Nearly 1.2 billion people ( around 16% of the worlds population) speak some form of Chinese as their first language. Dialects of Chinese Thank You！ BY Ginny