All linguistic universal synonyms
lin·guis·tic u·ni·ver·sal
L l noun linguistic universal
- jargon — a colorless to smoky gem variety of zircon.
- creole — A creole is a language that has developed from a mixture of different languages and has become the main language in a particular place.
- language universal — a trait or property of language that exists, or has the potential to exist, in all languages.
- lingua franca — any language that is widely used as a means of communication among speakers of other languages.
- pidgin — an auxiliary language that has come into existence through the attempts by the speakers of two different languages to communicate and that is primarily a simplified form of one of the languages, with a reduced vocabulary and grammatical structure and considerable variation in pronunciation.