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    Volapük (English: /ˈvɒləpʊk/; Volapük [volaˈpyk], 'Language of the World', or lit. 'World Speak') is a constructed language created between 1879 and 1880...
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    The Volapük Wikipedia (Volapük: Vükiped Volapükik) is the Volapük-language edition of the free online encyclopedia Wikipedia. It was created in February...
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  • The International Academy of Volapük (Volapük: Kadem bevünetik volapüka) was a ruling body established at the second Volapük congress in Munich in August...
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  • speaker community. Three major Volapük conventions were held, in 1884, 1887, and 1889; the last of them used Volapük as its working language. André Cherpillod...
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    Azeri, Turkish, Turkmen, Uyghur, Crimean Tatar, Hungarian, Votic and Volapük is Öö [øː], not "O with two dots" since /ø/ is not a variant of the vowel...
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    Arie de Jong (category Translators to Volapük)
    language Volapük by Johann Martin Schleyer, with whose help the Volapük movement gained new strength in the Netherlands. He not only revised Volapük, but...
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    learned Volapük, he decided to visit Johann Schleyer, the author of this language project. Seeing that even Schleyer himself was unable to speak Volapük fluently...
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    Auguste Kerckhoffs (category Featured articles needing translation from Volapük Wikipedia)
    constructed language Volapük, and for several years was a leading member of the Volapük movement, and Director of the Academy of Volapük. He published several...
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  • Sérgio Meira (category CS1 Volapük-language sources (vo))
    knowledge of Volapük material prior to the writing of A Hand-Book of Volapük. In late October 2006, Sérgio Meira started contributing to the Volapük Wikipedia...
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    Johann Martin Schleyer (category Featured articles needing translation from Volapük Wikipedia)
    1912) was a German Catholic priest who invented the constructed language Volapük. His official name was "Martin Schleyer"; he added the name "Johann" (in...
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  • Waldemar Rosenberger (category Articles needing translation from Volapük Wikipedia)
    director of the International Volapük Academy in 1892. Under his leadership, the Academy began to experiment more with the Volapük language. In 1902 the Academy...
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  • successful Volapük language of 1879, but avoids the use of the contentious umlauts that are used throughout Volapük. The third international Volapük convention...
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    language, as opposed to an autonomous constructed language like Esperanto or Volapük which were designed for maximal simplicity of lexicon and derivation of...
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  • well as descriptions of foods that had appeared in others' dreams. The Volapük language was created by Johann Martin Schleyer (1831–1912), after dreaming...
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    arms of Berdychiv, Ukraine Coat of arms of Kharkiv, Ukraine Emblem of the Volapük language Customs flag of Belarus, with a Caduceus crossed with a golden...
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    descendant of the Kadem bevünetik volapüka (International Academy of Volapük) created at a Volapük congress in Munich in August 1887. Under Waldemar Rosenberger...
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    construction will breed a mythology", but by 1956 he had concluded that "Volapük, Esperanto, Ido, Novial, &c, &c, are dead, far deader than ancient unused...
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    Organization for Standardization. ALA-LC (1997) "Volapuk" encoding (1990s): Slang term (it is not really Volapük) for a writing method that is not truly a transliteration...
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    instance, would be written 12.345.678,90123 in Ido. The 1931 grammar of Volapük uses the comma as its decimal separator, and – somewhat unusually – uses...
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    article, El Hormiguero. There was some controversy in late 2007 when the Volapük Wikipedia jumped from 797 to over 112,000 articles, briefly becoming the...
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    List of Wikipedias (category Articles containing Volapük-language text)
    Wikipedie Dutch Low Saxon Latn nds-nl 30 24 March 2006 Volapük Wikipedia Vükiped Volapükik Volapük Latn vo 30 27 January 2004 Franco-Provençal Wikipedia...
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    Johann Martin Schleyer proposed alternate forms for Ä and ä (Ꞛ and ꞛ, respectively) in Volapük but they were rarely used....
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  • Individual Living tiếng Việt Volapük vo vol vol vol Individual Constructed in 1879-80 by Johann Martin Schleyer Volapük Walloon wa wln wln wln Individual...
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  • Airlines Slovenia (2016–2018, IATA airline code VO) Seagram's VO Whiskey Volapük language (ISO 639-1 code vo) VO language, a language in which the verb...
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    very active, and have built libraries with hundreds of texts (such as Volapük). To provide direct, ongoing support by a local wiki community for a dynamic...
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    Hebrew, Latin, English, Spanish, Lithuanian, Italian, French, Aramaic and Volapük, knowing altogether something of 13 different languages, which had an influence...
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  • Date Language Attestation Notes 1879 Volapük created by Johann Martin Schleyer 1887 Esperanto Unua Libro created by L. L. Zamenhof 1907 Ido based on Esperanto...
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    German Ö a development of OE, to be compared with the French Œ. Early Volapük used Fraktur a, o and u as different from Antiqua ones. Later, the Fraktur...
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    more modern IALs (the only other language like Esperanto at the time was Volapük). Additionally, Esperanto has developed like other languages: through the...
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    Ugandan Bantu, 1990) Globish (English, 2004) (1868) Universalglot (1879) Volapük (1887) Esperanto (1902) Idiom Neutral (1907) Ido (1922) Interlingue (1928)...
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