A certain degree of English is spoken virtually universally, and is the language of choice for many Israeli businesses.

Lebanese Arabic is universally spoken while food, music, and literature are deep-rooted "in wider Mediterranean and Levantine norms".

It is more typical to define a language as "official" when more languages are universally spoken.

English is the official language of Dominica and is universally spoken and understood.

It was spoken almost universally in Hawaii until the islands were annexed by the United States in 1898.

It is universally spoken by its ethnic group.

English is now universally spoken as the last unilingual Francophone resident died in 1981.

In science fiction, Esperanto is often used to represent a future in which there is a more universally spoken language than exists today.

Although Spanish is the official language, it is not universally spoken among the indigenous population, nor is it often spoken as a second language by the elderly indigenous.

Mao Zedong and other leaders are universally spoken of with respect (amounting in the case of Mao to a kind of veneration).