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volVolapük  

Type

  • Language

Definition

  • Volapük (pronounced , , also Volapuk) is a constructed language, created in 1879–1880 by Johann Martin Schleyer, a Roman Catholic priest in Baden, Germany. Schleyer felt that God had told him in a dream to create an international language. Volapük conventions took place in 1884 (Friedrichshafen), 1887 (Munich) and 1889 (Paris). The first two conventions used German, and the last conference used only Volapük. In 1889, there were an estimated 283 clubs, 25 periodicals in or about Volapük, and 316 textbooks in 25 languages. In 2000, it was estimated that there were 20–30 Volapük speakers in the world; As of October 2011, the Volapük Wikipedia had the 35th highest count of Wikipedia articles with approximately articles. Volapük was largely displaced in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, specifically by Esperanto, Ido and Interlingua; all three have fewer distinct vowels, and are easier for English and Spanish speakers to pronounce.

ISO 639-1 code

  • vo

ISO 639-2 Bibliographical code

  • vol

ISO 639-2 Terminological code

  • vol

ISO 639-3 code

  • vol

Notation

  • vol

In other languages

  • Volapük

    French

  • volapuk
  • volapük
  • Volapük

    German

  • Volapük

    Italian

  • volapük
  • Portuguese

  • volapuque
  • volapük

    Spanish

  • Volapük

URI

http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/vol

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