Volapük
Syllables: Vo·la·pük/ˈvɒləˌpʊk/
Volapük proper noun: an artificial (or constructed) language created in 1879 by Johann Martin Schleyer.
Proper noun
Volapük
- An artificial (or constructed) language created in 1879 by Johann Martin Schleyer.
- ...some authors have claimed that the slang of the criminal was a kind of international language for thieves, a Volapük of crime.1897 April, A. F. B. Crofton, “The Language of Crime”, in Popular Science Monthly, volume 50, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 834
- 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...2004, Steven Roger Fischer, A history of language, Reaktion Books, →ISBN, page 180
Volapük meaning in Hindi, Arabic, Persian and Thai
Volapük in Hindi
- language
- वोलापूक volāpūk
Volapük in Arabic
- language
- فُولَابُوك volapūk
Volapük in Persian
- language
- ولاپوک volâpuk
Volapük in Thai
- language
- โวลาปุก
Forms of Volapük
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Origin of Volapük
From Volapük Volapük, from English world + speak.
Words formed from Volapük
Questions about Volapük
- What does Volapük mean?
- Volapük means an artificial (or constructed) language created in 1879 by Johann Martin Schleyer.
- What is Volapük in Hindi?
- Volapük in Hindi is वोलापूक (volāpūk). See Volapük meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is Volapük?
- Volapük is a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce Volapük?
- Volapük is pronounced /ˈvɒləˌpʊk/.
Words near Volapük in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: Volapük (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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