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{{About|the constructed language|other uses|Volapük (disambiguation)}}
{{short description|Constructed international auxiliary language}}
{{Infobox language
|name=Volapük
|nativename = {{lang|vo|Volapük}}, {{lang|vo|Volapük nulik}}
|image=Volapuk symbol.svg
|imagesize=100px
|imagecaption=Logo of the Volapük movement (2nd phase)
|creator=[[Johann Martin Schleyer]]
|created=1879–1880
|setting=International: mostly in [[Europe]]
|speakers=20
|ref=<ref name="speakers">[http://www.villagevoice.com/2000/08/01/pk-memory/ "Pük, Memory: Why I Learned a Universal Language No One Speaks"] by Paul LaFarge. ''[[The Village Voice]]'', August 2000.</ref>
|date=2000
|fam2=[[International auxiliary language]]
|posteriori=vocabulary from [[English language|English]], [[German language|German]], and [[French language|French]]
|agency     = [[Kadäm Volapüka]]
|script=[[Latin script|Latin]]
|iso1=vo
|iso2=vol
|iso3=vol
|glotto=vola1234
|glottoname=Volapük
|notice=IPA
}}

'''Volapük''' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|v|ɒ|l|ə|p|ʊ|k}} in English;<ref>OED</ref> {{IPA-all|volaˈpyk|}} in Volapük) is a [[constructed language]] created between 1879 and 1880 by [[Johann Martin Schleyer]], a [[Roman Catholic Church|Roman Catholic]] priest in [[Grand Duchy of Baden|Baden]], [[Germany]], who believed that [[God]] had told him in a dream to create an [[international auxiliary language|international language]]. Volapük [[Convention (meeting)|conventions]] took place in 1884 ([[Friedrichshafen]]), 1887 ([[Munich]]) and 1889 ([[Paris]]). The first two conventions used [[German language|German]], and the last conference used only Volapük. In 1889, there were an estimated 283 clubs, 25 periodicals in or about Volapük, and 316 textbooks in 25 languages;<ref name="sprague">[http://personal.southern.edu/~caviness/Volapuk/HBoV/ Handbook of Volapük], [[Charles E. Sprague]] (1888)</ref> at that time the language claimed nearly a million adherents.<ref>''A History of the English Language, 5th ed.'' Albert C. Baugh and Thomas Cable. Ch.&nbsp;I ''English Present and Future''; Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River (2002)</ref> Volapük was largely displaced between late 19th and early 20th century by [[Esperanto]].<ref>''The Loom of Language'' F.&nbsp;Bodmer and L.&nbsp;Hogben (eds.) Ch.&nbsp;XI ''Pioneers of Language Planning''; Allen & Unwin Ltd, London (1944)</ref>