world language
a language spoken and known in many countries, such as English
an artificial language for international use, such as Esperanto
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How to use world language in a sentence
Nowadays electronic music, as you know, is a world language.
Kraftwerk Speak: The German Electropop Act Discuss ‘Autobahn,’ Technology, and Hint at New Album | Douglas Wolk | April 29, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTHence every world culture whose basis is a unity of language, in the sense of a world language, is doomed to be transitory.
Elements of Folk Psychology | Wilhelm WundtSo we looked it up in Esperanto—the only attempt at a world-language of which we know, and in which my father is interested.
A Scout of To-day | Isabel HornibrookI suppose one reason why he thinks it possible to construct an artificial world language is because he has seen it done.
Major Prophets of To-Day | Edwin E. SlossonWhat the Austrians said was that German was a world-language and that it was a fad to want to learn Slovene.
The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 1 | Henry Baerlein
But apparently it was not till about 300 years ago that philosophers began to think seriously about a world-language.
International Language | Walter J. Clark
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