Sperantapük

Volapük

Etymology

Compound of Speranta (“of Esperanto”), genitive singular of Sperant (“bound morpheme derived from Esperanto”) + pük (“language”) (morpheme structure: Sperant (“Esperanto”) + -a (“genitive morpheme”) + pük (“language”) = Sperantapük (Esperanto language / Doktoro Esperanto's language))

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [spe.ɾan.ta.ˈpyk]
• Hyphenation: Spe‧ran‧ta‧pük

Proper noun

Sperantapük

1. Esperanto (an international auxiliary language)

Declension

declension of Sperantapük

	singular
nominative	Sperantapük
genitive	Sperantapüka
dative	Sperantapüke
accusative	Sperantapüki
vocative 1	o Sperantapük!
predicative 2	Sperantapüku

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

Derived terms

• hi-Sperantapükan (“male user of Esperanto, male Esperantist”)
• ji-Sperantapükan (“female user of Esperanto, female Esperantist”)
• Sperantapükik (“of or relating to Esperanto (the auxiliary language)”)
• Sperantapükän (“notional land of Esperantists, Esperantujo”)
• Sperantapükan (“user of Esperanto, Esperantist”)
• Sperantapükav (“linguistic study of Esperanto, Esperantology”)
• Sperantapükavan (“specialist in Esperantology, Esperantologist”)