One of the first artificial language constructed for use as an auxiliary international language; based largely on English but with some German and French and Latin roots
Volapuk \Vol`a*p["u]k"\, n.
Literally, world's speech; the name of an artificial language
invented by Johan Martin Schleyer, of Constance, Switzerland,
about 1879. For more about "planned languages", see
Esperanto.
[1913 Webster + PJC]
