"world language" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: world languages [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} world language (plural world languages)
  1. A language spoken internationally and which is learned by many people as a second language. Categories (topical): Language Related terms: lingua franca, panlingual, translingual, universal language Translations (language spoken internationally): 世界語言 /世界语言 (shìjiè yǔyán) (Chinese Mandarin), wereldtaal [feminine] (Dutch), mondlingvo (Esperanto), maailmankieli (Finnish), lingua mundial [feminine] (Galician), Weltsprache [feminine] (German), विश्वभाषा (viśvabhāṣā) [feminine] (Hindi), világnyelv (Hungarian), mondolinguo (Ido), мировой язык (mirovoj jazyk) [masculine] (Russian), dünya dili (Turkish), uluslararası dil (Turkish), volapük (Volapük)

Inflected forms

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          "code": "eo",
          "lang": "Esperanto",
          "sense": "language spoken internationally",
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          "code": "fi",
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          "sense": "language spoken internationally",
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          "sense": "language spoken internationally",
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          "sense": "language spoken internationally",
          "word": "mondolinguo"
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          "code": "tr",
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          "sense": "language spoken internationally",
          "word": "dünya dili"
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          "lang": "Turkish",
          "sense": "language spoken internationally",
          "word": "uluslararası dil"
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      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "language spoken internationally",
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      "sense": "language spoken internationally",
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      "sense": "language spoken internationally",
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        "feminine"
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      "sense": "language spoken internationally",
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        "feminine"
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      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "language spoken internationally",
      "word": "világnyelv"
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      "code": "io",
      "lang": "Ido",
      "sense": "language spoken internationally",
      "word": "mondolinguo"
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      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "mirovoj jazyk",
      "sense": "language spoken internationally",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "мировой язык"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "language spoken internationally",
      "word": "dünya dili"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "language spoken internationally",
      "word": "uluslararası dil"
    },
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