The phrase "as a single language" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to the concept of treating multiple dialects or variations as one unified language.
Example: "The various dialects of Spanish can be understood as a single language by speakers from different regions."
Alternatives: "as one language" or "in a unified form".
The Nigerian writes in English, although he has urged the adoption of Kiswahili as a single language for Africa.
As they are the most homogeneous division within Afro-Asiatic, the Berber languages have often been referred to as a single language in the past (especially in the tradition of French scholarship).
Before the ethnic conflicts in the Balkans in the 1990s, Serbo-Croatian was viewed by its speakers as a single language consisting of several dialects, spoken in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Croatia; afterward, local communities began to talk of Croatian and Serbian as distinct languages.
Because intercomprehensibility lies along a scale, the degree required for two or more forms of speech to qualify as dialects of a single language, instead of being regarded as separate languages, is not easy to quantify or to lay down in advance, and the actual cutoff point must in the last resort be arbitrary.
A distinct but related case against the folk ontology is that the delineation of a population as speakers of a single language is invariably driven by geo-political considerations.
This pride in unity has led to an insistence on the distinctions of different Mayan languages, some of which are so closely related that they could easily be referred to as dialects of a single language.
A cohesive community of resilient, employable people needs a single language as a foundation.
Even then, it was unnecessary to settle on a single language as a successor; how much less so now, when ever-improving translation software is making language barriers tumble.
It is demonstrated how a visual design language can support the crucial aspects for distributed system design as well as how these aspects can be smoothly integrated into a single language with multiple consistent views.
Coverage was further enlarged in 1975 when Congress expanded the meaning of "tests or devices" to encompass any jurisdiction that provided English-only election information, such as ballots, if the jurisdiction had a single language minority group that constituted more than five percent of the jurisdiction's voting-age citizens.
The Siko Translators - small as pocket calculators - are each dedicated to a single language.
