UN Arabic Language Day
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is celebrated every December 18
Key facts
- Date
- December 18
- Next time
- December 18, 2026 ( 2026-12-18 )
- Frequency
- annual
- First time
- 2012 ; 14 years ago ( 2012 )
- Related to
- International Mother Language Day , UN Chinese Language Day , UN English Language Day , UN French Language Day , UN Portuguese Language Day , UN Russian Language Day , UN Spanish Language Day , UN Swahili Language Day
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- world day
- Main subject
- Arabic
- Official website
- www.unesco.org/en/world-arabic-language-day
- Image
- UN Arabic Language Day.svg
- Organizer
- UNESCO
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- day in year for periodic occurrence
- December 18
- inception
- 2012-10-08
- start time
- 2012-00-00
- commemorates
- Arabic
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Encyclopedic overview
UN Arabic Language Day (Arabic: اليوم العالمي للغة العربية) is observed annually on December 18. The event was established by the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in 2012 seeking "to celebrate multilingualism and cultural diversity as well as to promote equal use of all six of its official working languages throughout the organization". December 18 was chosen as the date for the Arabic language as it is "the day in 1973 when the General Assembly approved Arabic as an official UN language".
See also
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “UN Arabic Language Day” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.