The Terminology of Telecommunications Database in six languages, Termite 6L , is the result of more than 30 years of terminology work by the ITU language services, the six languages being Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish. At present, the terms are consolidated in some 68 500 multilingual concepts, of which some 25 per cent cover more than three languages, around 10 per cent cover five languages and some 3 per cent cover all the six languages.

The purpose of ITU style guides (currently available for English, Russian and Spanish) is to codify the practices that have grown up within ITU in the drafting of ITU texts, including in the various official languages, in order to facilitate the work of authors, assistants, keyboard operators, translators, editors and proofreaders, ensure uniformity of documents in ITU and eliminate unnecessary corrections at each successive stage in the preparation of documents or publications. If you have any comment or suggestion, please let us know.