"For all the signs that English was becoming a world language, it was also diverging into multiple Englishes" (Cope & kalantzis, 2006).
English is the most widely spoken language in the world (The world's top 10 most spoken languages)
English is spoken as first and official languages & as a Lingua Franca
Lingua Franca: a language or dialect systematically used to make communication possible between groups of people who do not share a native language or dialect
English gets mingled with the native/local language and becomes an international variation
Recommended Resources:
Bill Cope & Mary Kalantzis (2006). From literacy to 'multileracies': Learning to mean in the new communication environment, English Studies in Africa, 49:1, 23-45, DOI: 10.1080/00138390608691342