English

Alternative forms

• Volapuk

Proper noun

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, 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 9781861890801, 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

External links

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

Turkish

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: Vo‧la‧pük

Proper noun

Volapük

1. (linguistics) Volapük

Declension

Volapük

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.la.ˈpyk/, [vo.la.ˈpyk]]

Proper noun

Volapük

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

Declension

Derived terms

• Volapükan
• Volapükav
• Volapükavan
• Volapükik
• Volapükön

Related terms

• volapük
• volapükatidel

Compounds

• Volapükagased
• Volapükaklub
• Volapükatidan ( < Volapükatidel)
• Volapükitidan

Finnish

Noun

volapük

1. Volapük (language)

Declension

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vɔ.la.pyk/

Noun

volapük m ‎(uncountable)

1. Volapük (language)

Portuguese

Noun

volapük m (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of volapuque

Volapük

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [volaˈpyk]

Noun

volapük ‎(plural volapüks)

1. universal language
2. (most literally) world language; global language

   Linglänapük e Fransänapük binons volapüks.‎

   English and French are world languages.

3. (sometimes lowercase) Volapük

Declension