Vol·a·pük 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.
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  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