It seems to me that the majority of the time learning any new language is not the syntax itself, but memorizing function names and parameter order. Has there e

It seems to me that the majority of the time learning any new language is not the syntax itself, but memorizing function names and parameter order. Has there ever been an effort to design a family of languages which use the same function names and order of parameters for the same operation so that switching between them would be a matter of learning basic syntax?