The phrase "as a world language" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a language that is widely spoken and understood across different countries and cultures.
Example: "English is increasingly recognized as a world language, facilitating communication in international business and travel."
Alternatives: "as a global language" or "as an international language".
French was once far ahead of English as a world language; now it's not.
Part of that job is to think of French as a world language and not the preserve of braying Brit holidaymakers.
Whether this is some faint literary relic of empire or arises from the prestige of English as a world language, it is a confidence not shared by German or Egyptian or North American fiction writers.
We compared two different frameworks which both set their own proficiency standards for different linguistic contexts: non-native speakers in the Expanding Circle and native speakers in the Inner Circle of Kachru's model for English as a world language.
This was accompanied by a proprietorial admission that French has decisively lost the battle for status as the world language and that English is now the established global means of communication, for practical matters and for a growing range of cultural ones.
Lost (and Gained) in Translation 05 July 2013 English's status as the world language of science presents challenges and opportunities to native speakers and English learners.
Given the onward march of English as the dominant world language, the efforts of the language purists may ultimately be doomed.
It is even funnier than the French original.David HeighamMadridPart of the equationSIR – To regard Latin as the original world language or the preferred language of philosophy and science is to adopt a Eurocentric world view that has long been discarded ("Roman rebound", December 20th).
That suggests that Pama-Nyungan languages developed much as other world languages did, rather than being a rarefied case, she argues.
Crucial to both has been the emergence of English, over several decades, as science's undisputed world language.
People have looked at it as a step toward a world without language barriers, but some who've tested it feel it is quite far off the mark.
