language universal

noun

Linguistics.

1. a trait or property of language that exists, or has the potential to exist, in all languages.

Word History and Origins

Origin of language universal¹

First recorded in 1965–70

Example Sentences

Understand you!—Oui da! you talk de language universal.

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No adequate effort is being made to render the English language universal throughout its limits, none at all to use it as a medium of thought and enlightenment.

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