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- proper noun Alternative spelling of
Volapük .
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Examples
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In short it was a sort of Indian "Volapuk," and was very easily mastered.
Thirty-One Years on the Plains and In the Mountains Drannan, William F 1899
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Here is, at least, an avian "Volapuk," a universal language understanded by the freemasonry of mutual self-preservation.
Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895 1887
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In short it was a sort of Indian "Volapuk," and was very easily mastered.
Thirty-One Years on the Plains and in the Mountains, Or, the Last Voice from the Plains William F. Drannan 1872
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Volapük is also used as the name for a system of encoding the Russian language in Latin characters, but this has nothing to do with Volapuk the language.
Archive 2009-02-01 nissa_amas_katoj 2009
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Volapük is also used as the name for a system of encoding the Russian language in Latin characters, but this has nothing to do with Volapuk the language.
And you thought Esperanto was weird.... nissa_amas_katoj 2009
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In much the same way, no followers of the artificial languages such as Esperanto and Volapuk have yet succeeded in finding a substitute for the language that we speak every day, which also is not pre-fabricated.
Bruno Leoni vs. Paul Romer, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Her other passion in life is her doctoral thesis on Volapuk, a lost language.
A is for... tinylittlelibrarian 2007
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She meets Kit at a linguistics conference in Chicago and not only is he a British dreamboat, he's a Volapuk scholar who has basically already presented her dissertation topic.
Archive 2007-05-01 tinylittlelibrarian 2007
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Her other passion in life is her doctoral thesis on Volapuk, a lost language.
Archive 2007-05-01 tinylittlelibrarian 2007
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She meets Kit at a linguistics conference in Chicago and not only is he a British dreamboat, he's a Volapuk scholar who has basically already presented her dissertation topic.
A is for... tinylittlelibrarian 2007
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