universal tongue

Example Sentences

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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

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

From England of My Heart : Spring by Hutton, Edward

The captain, formerly a professor in a military academy, having a taste for grammar and for the differences among European languages, had studied the problem of a universal tongue.

From Ursula by Wormeley, Katharine Prescott