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Language code: vol

Technical information about ISO 639 language code vol

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The table below provides technical details for the Volapük language, designated by the vol code from the ISO 639-2 standard.

Code

vol

Name

Official

Volapük

Native

Volapük

Text direction

Left-to-Right

Related languages
EsperantoIdoInterlinguaNovial
Key facts
Created in 1879–1880 by Johann Martin Schleyer after a reported dream inspirationFirst constructed auxiliary language to gain a worldwide movement, peaking at tens of thousands of learners in the 1880sHighly agglutinative with a regular three-case noun system and verb endings that mark tense, mood and voiceLexicon is mainly from English, German and French but phonologically reshaped, so many roots are hard to recognise at first sightAlthough eclipsed by Esperanto, it is still maintained by the Volapük Academy and an active online community producing new texts and translations.
Sample phrase

Labü, ol binol-li gudik?

Character encodings

UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32

Supported in Localizely

The Volapük language, identified by the code vol, falls under the 'Individual' category in terms of its scope and is classified as 'Constructed' by its type.

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