The effects of colonialism can be seen quite clearly in this map. Many people used either English, French, Spanish or Portuguese, and that’s not a coincidence.
In Europe, having former imperial dependencies seems to be the minimum requirement for getting to use your own language at the UN.
I’m actually surprised Germany and Austria did not speak German. It’s still an important language.
I was trying to figure out why Myanmar spoke Mongolian, then I realized the Mongolian color and the not in the UN color were very similar
I’m surprised by South Korea not using Korean, and slightly surprised by Japan not using Japanese.