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Volapuk

noun
1.
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.





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... deaf child and every other child. Let him get language and he gets the very stuff that language is made of, the thought and the experience of his race. The language must be one used by a nation, not an artificial thing. Volapuk is a paradox, unless one has French or English or German or some other language that has grown up in a nation. The deaf child who has only the sign language of De l'Epee is an intellectual Philip Nolan, an alien from ...
— Story of My Life • Helen Keller


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