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Noun Concept
Categories: English as a global language, Articles with permanently dead external links, Interlinguistics, Articles with short description, English as a second or foreign language
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English as a lingua franca  American English as a lingua franca  ELF  English as a world language  English as Lingua Franca
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English as a lingua franca is the use of the English language "as a global means of inter-community communication" and can be understood as "any use of English among speakers of different first languages for whom English is the communicative medium of choice and often the only option". Wikipedia
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English as a lingua franca is the use of the English language "as a global means of inter-community communication" and can be understood as "any use of English among speakers of different first languages for whom English is the communicative medium of choice and often the only option". Wikipedia
use of the English language for international communication Wikidata
IS A
lingua franca
DIFFERENT FROM
English as a second or foreign language
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English
Wikipedia
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English as a lingua franca
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English as a lingua franca
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American English as a lingua franca, English as a Lingua Franca, English as a world language, English as Lingua Franca
Wikidata Alias
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ELF, Global English, Globish, International English, World English

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