: Why isn’t there an Universal Sign Language?
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Others have answered well for the aspect of the question about one ubiquitous international signed language, but there’s more to the story.
There is one! There’s a variety called Gestuno which is sometimes used during conferences and other instances of international communication. Unfortunately I don’t know much about it past the 80s and 90s but it was quite common at the time for books and learning materials to be circulated to people who were going to attend a conference or whatever in the lead up, so that everyone could be on common ground by the time they got there.
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