world languages
Earth's spoken systems
World languages are those spoken across multiple countries or by large populations, often taught in schools as second languages: English, Spanish, Mandarin, Arabic, French.
The term distinguishes widely spoken languages from regional or minority ones.
In educational contexts, world languages has largely replaced foreign languages, which some consider exclusionary.
- bilingualismProficiency in two languages
- native speakerOne who grew up speaking it
- translationConverting between languages
- lost in translationMeaning altered between languages
- accentRegional speech pattern
linguistics · tongue · semantics · lingua franca · global English · code-switching · dialects · foreign · babel · mother tongue · native · vocabulary · creole · spoken · spoken word · pidgin · immersion · multilingualism
- literary workspoems, novels, poetry, fiction, plays
- trivia topicsnational flags, famous landmarks, Olympic sports, famous paintings, literary classics
- World Referenceencyclopedia, reference book
- Global Educationstudy abroad, exchange programs, international schools, international students, overseas education
- sociolinguisticssociolinguistics, diglossia, bilingualism, dialects, code-switching
world languagesprogramming languages
Formal computer instruction systems
computer code · machine code · computer languages · constructed languages · artificial languages
world languagesminority languages
Languages with few speakers
endangered languages · extinct languages · dead languages · regional languages · indigenous languages
world languagesanimal communication
Non-human information exchange
bird calls · whale song · machine language · computer languages
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