Yapänapük

Volapük

Etymology

Compound of Yapäna (“of Japan”), genitive singular of Yapän (“Japan”) + pük (“language”) (morpheme structure: Yapän (“Japan”) (bound morpheme Yap (“Japan”) + -än (“land / country”)) + -a (“genitive morpheme”) + pük (“language”) = Yapänapük (Japan's language))

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ja.pɛ.na.ˈpyk]

• Hyphenation: Ya‧pä‧na‧pük

Proper noun

Yapänapük

1. Japanese (language)

Declension

declension of Yapänapük

	singular
nominative	Yapänapük
genitive	Yapänapüka
dative	Yapänapüke
accusative	Yapänapüki
vocative 1	o Yapänapük!
predicative 2	Yapänapüku

• ¹ status as a case is disputed
• ² in later, non-classical Volapük only

Derived terms

• hi-Yapänapükan
• ji-Yapänapükan
• Yapänapükan
• Yapänapükik

Related terms

• hi-Yapänan
• ji-Yapänan
• Yapän
• Yapänan
• Yapänik