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

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

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

In the day of its pedagogical glory Latin was the universal tongue of the learned.

From Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene by Hall, G. Stanley

And these in time become incorporate into the universal tongue.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 38, December, 1860 by Various