Volapük

== English == === Alternative forms === Volapuk === Etymology === From Volapük Volapük, from English world + speak. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈvɒləˌpʊk/, /ˈvɒləˌpjuk/ IPA(key): /volaˈpyk/ (using the original Volapük pronunciation of the word) Hyphenation: Vo‧la‧pük === Proper noun === Volapük An artificial (or constructed) language created in 1879 by Johann Martin Schleyer. ==== Translations ==== ==== See also ==== Wiktionary’s coverage of Volapük terms ==== Further reading ==== ISO 639-1 code vo, ISO 639-3 code vol (SIL) == Dutch == === Etymology === Borrowed from Volapük Volapük, from English world + speak. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /voːlaːˈpyk/ 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-/ === 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 ==== == Volapük == === Alternative forms === Volapꞟk, Vp (abbreviation) === Etymology === Compound of vola (“world's”; genitive singular of vol, “world”) + pük (“language”); literally, “world language”, because its creator, German priest Johann Martin Schleyer, intended it to be used as an international auxiliary language (German: Weltsprache, “Universal Language”, lit. “Worldspeak”). Schleyer came up with this name by altering two English words: vol is from wol, from world, i.e. from a non-rhotic [e.g. British] pronunciation thereof, meaning that the r is not spoken; pük is from pik, from speak, with pik representing the peak (/piːk/) sounds in that word. Compare the generic (uncapitalized) term volapük. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /vo.laˈpyk/, [vo.laˈpyk] === Proper noun === Volapük Volapük (rarely lowercase, compare the generic term volapük versus the specific language called Volapük) ==== Declension ==== ==== Derived terms ==== ==== 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, from English world + speak. === Proper noun === Volapük Volapük ==== Usage notes ==== Variants may show up in older texts, but the wider current practice in West Frisian borrowings is either to borrow the term wholesale (as in Volapük) or to use an orthographic adaptation (as in *Folapúk, which is unattested).