Word: volapuk
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...sketch of the world language "Volapuk" which has appeared, shows strikingly the merits of this ingenious new language...
...Volapuk, or Volapyk, is a word that one frequently hears in these days, and all who pretend to keep up with the topics of the time should thoroughly understand the aims and rights of this "world-language...
...Schleier of Constance, becoming convinced of the commercial necessity of a language to be spoken by all nations, invented Volapuk, the etymology of which is based on French, German and Latin. There is but one declension, one conjugation, no article, no grade; and all prepositions govern the accusative. The conjugation of verbs is somewhat elaborate, but it is without exceptions. Volapuk has already been adopted in various parts of Australia, Syria, Germany and America. In Paris it is taught in thirteen institutions, and there are five newspapers published in it. We are quite prepared to believe the statement of Volapuk...
...universal language, "Volapuk," has already found a rival in a language equally new, and prospectively universal, called "Pasilingua." Its inventor (who is a German) has recognized that no existing language could serve the purpose of universality, and has accordingly devised a new tongue which shall suit the mouths of all men English is acknowledged to be the dominant principle; but how far its modification is necessary may be seen from the following verse of St. Matthew, ii, 3: Et quando ils partitefer schire, to angelo deode apparifer Fosephobi in una trauma, sagano: Arisire, takare ton jungon childon et tom matren...