universal tongue

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I joined a program funded by a global oil giant to teach 40 Saudi Arabians the universal tongue of petrochemical refineries.

From New York Times • Aug. 18, 2021

Spoken as first language by 250 million people and as a second language by hundreds of millions more, widely dispersed English is becoming the universal tongue of trade, diplomacy, science and scholarship.

From Time Magazine Archive

The language is no longer Latin but mathematics, and this is the universal tongue in which the higher rituals of the order are conducted all over the earth.

From Time Magazine Archive

Pictures are in themselves a language—the oldest as well as the most universal tongue of the world.

From Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide by Sylvester, Charles Herbert

"Latin," he answered, "was in the Middle Ages a universal tongue."

From On Nothing and Kindred Subjects by Belloc, Hilaire