Volapük
English
Alternative forms
- Volapuk
Etymology
From Volapük Volapük.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈvɒləˌpʊk/
Audio (UK) (file) - IPA(key): /volaˈpyk/ (using the original Volapük pronunciation of the word)
- Hyphenation: Vo‧la‧pük
Proper noun
Volapük
- 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, 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.
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Translations
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Further reading
- ISO 639-1 code vo, ISO 639-3 code vol (SIL)
- Linguist List entry for Volapük, code vol
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from Volapük Volapük.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /voːlaːˈpyk/
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: Vo‧la‧pük
- Rhymes: -yk
Proper noun
Volapük n
- Volapük (definite article is often omitted)
German
Etymology
Borrowed from Volapük Volapük, from English world+ speak.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌvoːlaˈpyːk/, /ˌvɔla-/
Audio (file)
Proper noun
Volapük n (proper noun, strong, genitive Volapük or Volapüks)
- 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
See also
- Hilfssprache
- Welthilfssprache
- Weltsprache
Turkish
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: Vo‧la‧pük
Proper noun
Volapük
- (linguistics) Volapük
Declension
singular, uncountable (tekil, sayılamaz) | |
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nominative (yalın) | Volapük |
accusative (belirtme) | Volapük'ü |
dative (yönelme) | Volapük'e |
locative (bulunma) | Volapük'te |
ablative (çıkma) | Volapük'ten |
genitive (tamlayan) | Volapük'ün |
Volapük
Alternative forms
- Volapꞟk, 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]
Audio: (file)
Proper noun
Volapük
- Volapük (rarely lowercase, compare the generic term volapük versus the specific language called Volapük)
Declension
singular | |
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nominative | Volapük |
genitive | Volapüka |
dative | Volapüke |
accusative | Volapüki |
predicative | Volapüku |
vocative | oVolapük! |
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
West Frisian
Alternative forms
- Volapuk (superseded)
Etymology
Borrowed from Volapük Volapük.
Proper noun
Volapük
- 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).