Universal Language is a 1977 album by the American band Booker T. & the M.G.'s.

's drummer Al Jackson, Jr., who was murdered in 1975;[2] the remaining members recruited Willie Hall to replace him on this album.

[3] The group would not record another album for seventeen years, returning in 1994 with That's the Way It Should Be.

The AllMusic retrospective review awarded the album 2 stars.

[4] All songs written by Cropper, Dunn, and Jones, except where noted