language universal

American  

noun

Linguistics.

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

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Etymology

Origin of language universal

First recorded in 1965–70

Example Sentences

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.

From An Englishman Looks at the World by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

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

From The Heiress; a comedy, in five acts by Burgoyne, John