Johann Martin Schleyer

Johann Martin Schleyer (1831–1912) was a German Catholic priest who created Volapük, an international auxiliary language, in the late nineteenth century.

Volapük: An international auxiliary language created by Johann Martin Schleyer and published in 1880. This is the language Schleyer designed and promoted.
Volapük grammar: The system of word formation, inflection, and syntax used in Volapük. Its regular rules reveal how Schleyer made the language learnable by design.
August Kerckhoffs: A Dutch-born linguist and mathematician who helped organize the early Volapük movement. Kerckhoffs’s leadership brought Volapük into conflict with Schleyer over authority and reform.
Volapük movement: The international network of clubs, publications, and meetings devoted to Volapük. Schleyer’s creation briefly supported a large, coordinated language movement.
Lingwe uniwersala: An international-language project proposed by Józef Maria Hoene-Wroński in the nineteenth century. Earlier universal-language schemes formed part of the intellectual setting for Schleyer’s project.
Volapük alphabet: The Latin-based writing system used for Volapük, including letters with diacritics. Schleyer specified a distinctive alphabet as part of the language’s construction.
Volapük Academy: An institution established to guide Volapük’s development and standardization. The academy became a focal point for disputes over who could revise Schleyer’s language.
International auxiliary language: A planned language intended to facilitate communication among people with different native languages. Volapük helped establish the modern movement for designed international languages.
Universal language: A language intended to enable communication across different native languages. Schleyer’s invention belongs to the long history of proposed shared languages.
Agglutinative language: A language that forms words by combining morphemes, each typically expressing a distinct grammatical function. Volapük’s word formation uses features associated with agglutinative languages.

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