universal tongue

His work was put into Latin, and was, I think, one of the last English works to be translated into the universal tongue.

They hammered me viciously, shouted at me, cursed me in the universal tongue, but I paid no heed.

He was favoring the immediate adoption of a universal tongue for all the peoples of the earth—that was all.

And these in time become incorporate into the universal tongue.

Fortunate was Coleridge-Taylor to be born in Europe and to speak a universal tongue.