Volapük

• Volapuk

From Volapük Volapük.

• IPA^(key): /ˈvɒləˌpʊk/, /ˈvɒləˌpjuk/

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• IPA^(key): /volaˈpyk/ (using the original Volapük pronunciation of the word)
• Hyphenation: Vo‧la‧pük

Volapük

1. An artificial language (constructed language) created in 1879 by Johann Martin Schleyer.
   • 1897 April, A. F. B. Crofton, “The Language of Crime”, in Popular Science Monthly‎^[1], volume 50, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 834:

     ...some authors have claimed that the slang of the criminal was a kind of international language for thieves, a Volapük of crime.

   • 2004, Steven Roger Fischer, A history of language, Reaktion Books, →ISBN, page 180:

     The first practical constructed language was the south-west German Pastor Schleyer's Volapük from 1879; its complicated grammar and irregular vocabulary made learning difficult, however. The most successful has been Esperanto, devised by the Warsaw ophthalmologist Ludwig Zamenhof in 1887, that today can count some one million speakers.

• ISO 639-1 code vo, ISO 639-3 code vol (SIL)

Borrowed from Volapük Volapük.

• IPA^(key): /voːlaːˈpyk/

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• Hyphenation: Vo‧la‧pük
• Rhymes: -yk

Volapük n

1. Volapük (definite article is often omitted)

Borrowed from Volapük Volapük, from English world + speak.

• IPA^(key): /ˌvoːlaˈpyːk/, /ˌvɔla-/

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Volapük n (proper noun, strong, genitive Volapük or Volapüks)

1. Volapük

• The word can be used with or without a definite article: (Das) Volapük ist eine konstruierte Sprache. (“Volapük is a constructed language.”) The form with no article is generally more common, but the article is necessary in the genitive case (die Grammatik des Volapük), and is common with the preposition in (die Pluralbildung im Volapük).

• Volapüklehrer

• Hilfssprache
• Welthilfssprache
• Weltsprache

• Hyphenation: Vo‧la‧pük

Volapük

1. (linguistics) Volapük

• Volapꞟk, Vp (abbreviation)

Compound of vola (“world's”; genitive singular of vol, “world”) + pük (“language”); literally, “world language”, because its creator, German priest Johann Martin Schleyer, intended it to be used as an international auxiliary language (German: Weltsprache, “Universal Language”, lit. “Worldspeak”). Schleyer came up with this name by altering two English words:

• vol is from wol, from world, i.e. from a non-rhotic [e.g. British] pronunciation thereof, meaning that the r is not spoken;
• pük is from pik, from speak, with pik representing the peak (/piːk/) sounds in that word.
  

Compare the generic (uncapitalized) term volapük.

• IPA^(key): /vo.laˈpyk/, [vo.laˈpyk]

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Volapük

1. Volapük (rarely lowercase, compare the generic term volapük versus the specific language called Volapük)
   • 1938, “Pö yelacen”, in Volapükagased pro Nedänapükans, page 1:

     Volapük eprogedon nog no mödiko, e nog ai go no labülon pladi, kel demü patöfs sublimik okik duton lü on.

     Volapük has not yet made great progress, and is far from occupying the place it deserves due to its its superior qualities.

• volapük
• volapükatidel

• → Danish: volapyk
• → Dutch: Volapük
• → English: Volapük
• → German: Volapük
• → Turkish: Volapük
• → West Frisian: Volapük

• Volapuk (superseded)

Borrowed from Volapük Volapük.

Volapük

1. Volapük

Variants may show up in older texts, but current practice in West Frisian is to either borrow the term wholesale (Volapük) or to use a phonological adaptation (unattested Folapúk).