Editing Passport (section)

===Languages===
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In 1920, an international conference on passports and through tickets held by the [[League of Nations]] recommended that passports be issued in the [[French language]], historically the language of diplomacy, and one other language.<ref>{{cite book|last=Baenninger|first=Martin|title=In the eye of the wind: a travel memoir of prewar Japan |publisher=McGill-Queen's Press – MQUP|location=Cheltenham, England|year=2009|series=Footprints|volume=Footprints|page=12|isbn=978-0-7735-3497-1|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HOtze2tfb_IC&q=lingua+franca&pg=PA12|access-date=2011-11-17}}</ref> Currently, the [[ICAO]] recommends that passports be issued in English, French, and Spanish; or in the national language of the issuing country and in either English, French, or Spanish.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://www.icao.int/publications/Documents/9303_p3_cons_en.pdf |title=Doc 9303, Machine Readable Travel Documents Part 3 - Specifications Common to all MRTDs |publisher=International Civil Aviation Organization |year=2021 |isbn=9789292659349 |edition=8th |location=Montréal, Quebec, Canada |pages=3 |language=en}}</ref> Many European countries use their national language, along with English and French.

Some additional language combinations are:
* National passports of the European Union bear all of the [[official languages of the European Union]]. Two or three languages are printed at the relevant points, followed by reference numbers which point to the passport page where translations into the remaining languages appear.{{Citation needed|date=June 2021}}
* [[Algerian passport|Algerian]], [[Chadian passport|Chadian]], [[Lebanese passport|Lebanese]], [[Mauritanian passport|Mauritanian]], [[Moroccan passport|Moroccan]] and [[Tunisian passport]]s are in three languages: Arabic, English, and French.
* The [[Barbadian passport]] and the [[United States passport]] are tri-lingual: English, French and Spanish. United States passports were English and French since 1976, but began being printed with a Spanish message and labels during the late 1990s, in recognition of [[Puerto Rico]]'s Spanish-speaking status. Since 2007, the Data Page, which contains photo, identifying information, and the passport's issuance and expiration dates, and the Personal Data and Emergency Contact page are written in English, French, and Spanish;<ref name=":2">{{cite web |title=PRADO |url=https://www.consilium.europa.eu/prado/en/VAT-AD-01004/image-286975.html |access-date=2021-06-21 |website=European Council |language=en}}</ref> the cover and instructions pages are printed solely in English.
* On [[Belgian passport]]s, all three official languages (Dutch, French, German) appear on the cover, in addition to English on the main page. The order of the official languages depends on the official residence of the holder.
* [[Bosnia and Herzegovina passport|Passports of Bosnia and Herzegovina]] are in the three official languages of Bosnian, Serbian and Croatian in addition to English.
* [[Brazilian passport]]s contain four languages: Portuguese, the official country language; Spanish, because of bordering nations; English and French.
* [[British passports]] bear English and French on the information page and Spanish, [[Welsh language|Welsh]], [[Irish language|Irish]] and [[Scottish Gaelic]] translations on an extra page.
* [[Cypriot passport]]s are in Greek, Turkish and English.
* [[Haitian passport]]s are in French and [[Haitian Creole]].
* [[Vatican and Holy See passports|Passports issued by the Holy See]] are in [[Latin]] (the language of the Catholic Church), French, and English.<ref name=":2" />
* The first page of the old [[Libyan passport]] (green cover) was in Arabic only. The current passport has dark-blue cover, is electronically readable, and has Arabic with English translation in the first page (first page from a right-to-left script viewpoint). Similar arrangements are found in the passports of some other Arab countries.
* [[Iraqi passport]]s are in Arabic, Kurdish and English.
* [[Macau SAR passport]]s are in three languages: Chinese (in [[traditional Chinese characters]]), Portuguese and English.
*[[New Zealand passport]]s are in English and [[Māori language|te reo Māori]].
* [[Norwegian passport]]s are in the two forms of the Norwegian language, [[Bokmål]] and [[Nynorsk]], [[Northern Sami]] and English.
* [[Sri Lankan passport]]s are in [[Sinhala language|Sinhala]], [[Tamil language|Tamil]] and English.
* [[Swiss passport]]s are in five languages: German, French, Italian, [[Romansh language|Romansh]] and English.