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
The extension of Esperanto is now threatening to rival that of Volapük.
From The Task of Social Hygiene by Havelock Ellis
A Volapük Grammar, for the study of the Volapük language, by Prof. Kerchkoffs, translated into English by Karl Dorubush, has lately been published.
From Buchanan's Journal of Man, November 1887 Volume 1, Number 10 by Joseph R. (Joseph Rodes) Buchanan
It was attended by Volapükists from many different nations, who carried on all their business in Volapük, and found no difficulty in understanding one another.
From International Language Past, Present and Future: With Specimens of Esperanto and Grammar by Walter John Clark
Such manufactured lingos as Esperanto, Volapuk, Ido, Novial, Occidental he rejected as unrealistic, improbable.
From Time Magazine Archive
You would begin to talk of scientific languages, of Esperanto, La Langue Bleue, New Latin, Volapuk, and Lord Lytton, of the philosophical language of Archbishop Whateley, Lady Welby's work upon Significs and the like.
From A Modern Utopia by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
Suppose that Abdul Baha decides on Esperanto, as he seems inclined to do, then will it be heresy for some one to invent a language as much superior to Esperanto as it is to Volapuk?
From Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha by Samuel Graham Wilson
This code is not local, but has acquired an internationality which professors of Volapuk would be proud to claim for their language.
From The Idler Magazine, Volume III., July 1893 An Illustrated Monthly by Various
He had heard the same outcry in his own city, for the slang of the street-rat is Volapuk the world over.
From The Fortunes of Oliver Horn by Francis Hopkinson Smith
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