Volapuk (English spelling)

Japanese: Volapük(英語表記)Volapuk
Volapuk (English spelling)

… In response to this, there is an idea to create an international language based on real classical and modern languages. The first idea, Volapük, was conceived in 1879 by German Catholic priest JM Schleyer. It is simpler than natural languages, but its grammar is still quite complex. The movement was quite active for about ten years, but then died down. …

From [Artificial Language]

…In the process, he became convinced of the superiority of the binary system, which can express all numbers using only 0 and 1, and today's computer languages ​​can be said to be successful examples of artificial language systems using the binary system. Furthermore, Johann Martin Schleyer (1831-1912) proposed a philosophical language in Volapük (1878), which included innovative ideas such as using the alphabet as "true characters" (Figure 1). Since all of the above examples were new proposals that did not start from existing languages, they are generally called "a priori languages" and are distinguished from "a posteriori languages" such as Esperanto, which are improvements on natural languages. …

*Some of the terminology that mentions "Volapük" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

… それに対し,現実の古典語・近代語をもととした国際語を作る考えがある。初め1879年にドイツのカトリック聖職者シュライヤーJ.M.Schleyerにより考えられたのが〈ボラピュークVolapük〉で,自然語よりは簡単であるが,それでも文法はかなり複雑である。10年ほどはかなり活発に運動が行われたがやがて衰えた。…

【人工言語】より

…彼はその過程で,0と1だけで全数字を表現できる二進法の卓越性を確信したが,今日のコンピューター言語は二進法による人工言語システムの成功例ともいえよう。さらに哲学的言語の提案としてはシュライヤーJohann Martin Schleyer(1831‐1912)による〈ボラピュクVolapük〉(1878)があり,〈真の文字〉にアルファベットを流用するなど斬新なアイデアが盛られた(図1)。 以上述べた例はいずれも既成言語から出発しない新しい提案だったため,一般に〈先験語a priori language〉と呼ばれ,自然言語を改良したエスペラントなどの〈後験語a posteriori language〉とは区別される。…

※「Volapük」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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