Volapuk

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  Volapuk
       n : 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