world language

noun

1. a language spoken and known in many countries, such as English
2. an artificial language for international use, such as Esperanto

Example Sentences

Nowadays electronic music, as you know, is a world language.

From The Daily Beast

Hence every world culture whose basis is a unity of language, in the sense of a world language, is doomed to be transitory.

From Project Gutenberg

So we looked it up in Esperanto—the only attempt at a world-language of which we know, and in which my father is interested.

From Project Gutenberg

I suppose one reason why he thinks it possible to construct an artificial world language is because he has seen it done.

From Project Gutenberg

What the Austrians said was that German was a world-language and that it was a fad to want to learn Slovene.

From Project Gutenberg

But apparently it was not till about 300 years ago that philosophers began to think seriously about a world-language.

From Project Gutenberg