Volapük

See also: volapuk, Volapuk, volapúk, volapük, and vólapuk

English

Alternative forms

• Volapuk

Etymology

From Volapük Volapük.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈvɒləˌpʊk/

• Audio (UK)

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

Proper noun

Volapük

1. An artificial language (constructed language) created in 1879 by Johann Martin Schleyer.
   • 1897 April 1, A. F. B. Crofton, “The Language of Crime”, in Popular Science Monthly‎^[1], volume 50, ISSN 0161-7370, OCLC 488612811, 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.

Translations

language

• Arabic: فُولَابُوك‎ m (fulabūk)
• Armenian: վոլապյուկ (hy) (volapyuk)
• Basque: volapük (eu)
• Belarusian: валапю́к (be) m (valapjúk)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 沃拉普克語, 沃拉普克语 (wòlāpǔkèyǔ)

• Danish: volapyk n
• Dutch: Volapük (nl) n
• Esperanto: volapuko
• Faroese: volapúkk (fo) n
• Finnish: volapük (fi)
• French: volapük (fr) m
• Galician: volapuk (gl) m
• German: Volapük (de) n, Volapükisch n, Volapüksprache f, Volapük-Sprache f
• Hungarian: volapük (hu)
• Icelandic: vólapuk (is)
• Japanese: ヴォラピュク (ja) (vorapyuku)
• Korean: 볼라퓌크 (ko) (bollapwikeu)
• Latvian: volapiks m

• Malagasy: volapoky (mg)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: volapyk m

  Nynorsk: volapyk m

• Persian: ولاپوک‎ (volapuk)
• Polish: volapük (pl) m inan, wolapik m inan
• Portuguese: volapuque (pt) m, volapuk (pt) m
• Russian: волапю́к (ru) m (volapjúk), воляпю́к (ru) m (voljapjúk)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Волапик m

  Roman: Volapük (sh) m, Volapik m

• Slovak: volapük m
• Spanish: volapük m, volapuk (es) m
• Swedish: volapük (sv) volapyk
• Turkish: Volapük (tr)
• Ukrainian: волапю́к (uk) m (volapjúk), воляпю́к m (voljapjúk)
• Volapük: Volapük (vo)
• West Frisian: Volapük n

Further reading

• ISO 639-1 code vo, ISO 639-3 code vol
• Linguist List entry for Volapük, code vol

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Volapük Volapük.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /voːlaːˈpyk/
• Rhymes: -yk

• Audio

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Proper noun

Volapük n

1. Volapük (definite article is often omitted)

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German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌvoːlaˈpyːk/, /ˌvɔla-/

Proper noun

Volapük n (genitive Volapük or Volapüks)

1. Volapük

Usage notes

• 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).

Derived terms

• Volapüklehrer

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Turkish

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: Vo‧la‧pük

Proper noun

Volapük

1. (linguistics) Volapük

Declension

declension of Volapük

	singular, uncountable (tekil, sayılamaz)
nominative (yalın)	Volapük
accusative (belirtme)	Volapük'ü
dative (yönelme)	Volapük'e
locative (bulunma)	Volapük'te
ablative (çıkma)	Volapük'ten
genitive (tamlayan)	Volapük'ün

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Volapük

Alternative forms

• Vp (abbreviation)

Etymology

Compound of vola (“of the world / world's”), genitive singular of vol (“world”) + pük (“language”) (morpheme structure: vol (“world”) + -a (“genitive morpheme”) + pük (“language”) = volapük (“world language”) / Volapük (“World Language”), i.e., Johann Martin Schleyer's Weltsprache (“World Language / Universal Language”). Johann Martin Schleyer created the compound noun volapük (vol + -a + pük) by both simplifying and deforming the English words: world (world > wol > vol) and speak / speech (speak / speech > pik > pük), which produced (lowercase generic term) volapük (any "worldspeak" or "world language") versus (uppercase specific term) Volapük, "the" Worldspeak / World Language / Weltsprache.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vo.laˈpyk/, [vo.laˈpyk]

Proper noun

Volapük

1. Volapük (rarely lowercase, compare the generic term volapük versus the specific language called Volapük)

Declension

    declension of Volapük

	singular
nominative	Volapük
genitive	Volapüka
dative	Volapüke
accusative	Volapüki
predicative	Volapüku
vocative	o Volapük!

Derived terms

• Volapükagased
• Volapükaklub
• Volapükan
• Volapükatidan ( < Volapükatidel)
• Volapükitidan
• Volapükav
• Volapükavan
• Volapükik
• Volapükön

Related terms

• volapük
• volapükatidel

Descendants

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

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West Frisian

Alternative forms

• Volapuk (superseded)

Etymology

Borrowed from Volapük Volapük.

Proper noun

Volapük

1. Volapük

Usage notes

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).