Volapük

Etymology
From.

Proper noun

 * 1) An artificial language (constructed language) created in 1879 by.

Translations

 * Arabic: فُولَابُوك
 * Armenian:
 * Azerbaijani: volapük
 * Basque:
 * Belarusian:
 * Bulgarian: волапю́к
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 沃拉普克語
 * Danish: volapyk
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: volapuko
 * Faroese:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: ვოლაპიუკი
 * German:, Volapükisch, Volapüksprache, Volapük-Sprache
 * Greek:
 * Hindi: वोलापूक
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Japanese:
 * Kazakh: волапюк
 * Korean:
 * Latvian: volapiks
 * Macedonian: волапик
 * Malagasy:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: volapyk
 * Nynorsk: volapyk
 * Persian: ولاپوک
 * Polish:, wolapik
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: Волапик
 * Roman:, Volapik
 * Slovak: volapük
 * Spanish: volapük,
 * Swedish: volapyk
 * Thai: โวลาปุก
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian:, воляпю́к
 * Volapük:
 * West Frisian: Volapük

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Etymology
, from.

Proper noun

 * 1) 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 (die Pluralbildung im Volapük).

Proper noun

 * 1)  Volapük

Etymology
Compound of, genitive singular of +  (morpheme structure:  + ' +  =  / , i.e., Johann Martin Schleyer's . Johann Martin Schleyer created the compound noun volapük (vol + -a + pük) by both simplifying and deforming the English words: world (world > wol > vol) and speak / speech (speak / speech > pik > pük), which produced  volapük (any "worldspeak" or "world language") versus  Volapük''', "the" Worldspeak / World Language / Weltsprache.

Proper noun

 * 1) Volapük (rarely lowercase, compare the generic term  versus the specific language called Volapük)

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Usage notes
Variants may show up in older texts, but current practice in West Frisian is to either borrow the term wholesale (Volapük) or to use a phonological adaptation (unattested Folapúk).