Meaning of Volapuk | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An artificial language (constructed language) created in 1879 by Johann Martin Schleyer.
2. Alternative spelling of Volapük.
   alt-of, alternative

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Examples

“...some authors have claimed that the slang of the criminal was a kind of international language for thieves, a Volapük of crime.”

“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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