Volapük

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See also: volapuk, Volapuk, and volapük

English[edit]

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Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Volapük Volapük.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ˈvɒləˌpʊk/
  • Hyphenation: Vo‧la‧pük

Proper noun[edit]

Volapük

  1. An artificial 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[edit]

Further reading[edit]

Dutch[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Volapük Volapük.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /voːlaːˈpyk/
  • Rhymes: -yk
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Proper noun[edit]

Volapük n

  1. Volapük (definite article is often omitted)

German[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ˌvoːlaˈpyːk/, /ˌvɔla-/

Proper noun[edit]

Volapük n (genitive Volapük or Volapüks)

  1. Volapük

Usage notes[edit]

  • 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 with the preposition in (die Pluralbildung im Volapük).

Turkish[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • Hyphenation: Vo‧la‧pük

Proper noun[edit]

Volapük

  1. (linguistics) Volapük

Declension[edit]

    declension of Volapük
singular plural
nominative Volapük Volapükler / Volapük'ler
accusative Volapük'ü Volapükleri / Volapük'leri
dative Volapük'e Volapüklere / Volapük'lere
locative Volapük'de Volapüklerde / Volapük'lerde
ablative Volapük'den Volapüklerden / Volapük'lerden
genitive Volapük'ün Volapüklerin / Volapük'lerin
    possessive of Volapük
Nominative singular plural
benim (my) Volapüküm Volapüklerim
senin (your) Volapükün Volapüklerin
onun (her/his/its) Volapükü Volapükleri
bizim (our) Volapükümüz Volapüklerimiz
sizin (your) Volapükünüz Volapükleriniz
onların (their) Volapükü / Volapükleri Volapükleri
Accusative singular plural
benim (my) Volapükümü Volapüklerimi
senin (your) Volapükünü Volapüklerini
onun (her/his/its) Volapüksini Volapüklerini
bizim (our) Volapükünü Volapüklerimizi
sizin (your) Volapükünüzü Volapüklerinizi
onların (their) Volapükünü / Volapüklerini Volapüklerini
Dative singular plural
benim (my) Volapüküme Volapüklerime
senin (your) Volapüküne Volapüklerine
onun (her/his/its) Volapüküne Volapüklerine
bizim (our) Volapükümüze Volapüklerimize
sizin (your) Volapükünüze Volapüklerinize
onların (their) Volapüküne / Volapüklerine Volapüklerine
Locative singular plural
benim (my) Volapükümde Volapüklerimde
senin (your) Volapükünde Volapüklerinde
onun (her/his/its) Volapükünde Volapüklarında
bizim (our) Volapükümüzde Volapüklerimizde
sizin (your) Volapükünüzde Volapüklerinizde
onların (their) Volapükünde / Volapüklerinde Volapüklerinde
Ablative singular plural
benim (my) Volapükümden Volapüklerimden
senin (your) Volapükünden Volapüklerinden
onun (her/his/its) Volapükünden Volapüklerinden
bizim (our) Volapükümüzden Volapüklerimizden
sizin (your) Volapükünüzden Volapüklerinizden
onların (their) Volapükünden / Volapüklerinden Volapüklerinden
Genitive singular plural
benim (my) Volapükümün Volapüklerimin
senin (your) Volapükünün Volapüklerinin
onun (her/his/its) Volapükünün Volapüklerinin
bizim (our) Volapükümüzün Volapüklerimizin
sizin (your) Volapükünüzün Volapüklerinizin
onların (their) Volapükünün / Volapüklerinin Volapüklerinin

Volapük[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

  • Vp (abbreviation)

Etymology[edit]

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[edit]

  • IPA(key): /vo.laˈpyk/, [vo.laˈpyk]

Proper noun[edit]

Volapük

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

Declension[edit]

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

Derived terms[edit]

Related terms[edit]

Compounds[edit]

Descendants[edit]

West Frisian[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed form Volapük Volapük.

Proper noun[edit]

Volapük

  1. Volapük

Usage notes[edit]

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).

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