volapük
/ˈvɒləˌpʊk/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
An artificial (or constructed) language created in 1879 by Johann Martin Schleyer.
Example Sentences
- "...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."
- "Other auxlangs of this period include Joseph Schipfer’s Communicationssprache (1839), a simplified version of French; Jean Pirro’s Universalglot (1868), one of the first fully developed auxlangs to integrate linguistic features from multiple languages; and Johann Martin Schleyer’s Volapük (1880), which was the most successful auxlang until Esperanto supplanted it."
Etymology
Origin
- Source language: English
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