Volapük
noun
one of the earliest of the artificially constructed international auxiliary languages, invented about 1879.
Volapük
American
[voh-luh-pyk]
/ ˌvoʊ ləˈpük /
Also
Volapuk
noun
Volapuk
British
/ ˈvɒləˌpʊk /
noun
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Etymology
Origin of Volapük
1880–85; vol, representing world + -a- connecting vowel + pük, representing speak
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Though “conlangs” are not a new phenomenon—Esperanto and Volapük were 19th-century examples—they have exploded since 1990.
From Slate ● Oct. 30, 2019
According to its own Wikipedia page, it has 17 million entries in more than 250 languages—including 118,000 in Volapük.
From BusinessWeek ● Jan. 6, 2011
But, like Volapük, Esperanto found its great apostle in France.
From The Task of Social Hygiene by Havelock Ellis
Why Esperanto should be condemned for the sins of Volapük is not obvious.
From International Language Past, Present and Future: With Specimens of Esperanto and Grammar by Walter John Clark
The year 1887, written out in Volapük, is Balmil jöltum jölsevel.
From Buchanan's Journal of Man, August 1887 Volume 1, Number 7 by Joseph R. (Joseph Rodes) Buchanan
Such manufactured lingos as Esperanto, Volapuk, Ido, Novial, Occidental he rejected as unrealistic, improbable.
From Time Magazine Archive
In short it was a sort of Indian "Volapuk," and was very easily mastered.
From Thirty-One Years on the Plains and in the Mountains, Or, the Last Voice from the Plains An Authentic Record of a Life Time of Hunting, Trapping, Scouting and Indian Fighting in the Far West by William F. Drannan
The universal language of humanity is neither Volapuk, nor Esperanto, nor Ido.
From Second Sight A study of Natural and Induced Clairvoyance by Sepharial
After two days came a message couched in Volapuk or some other hybrid combination, which led him to believe that his property had been started for London.
From In Pastures New by George Ade
Here is, at least, an avian "Volapuk," a universal language understanded by the freemasonry of mutual self-preservation.
From Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895 by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
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