#Volapük

[yourfavespeaksaconlang]

stanford pines from gravity falls speaks volapük and lojban! :-)

Stanford Pines from Gravity Falls speaks Volapük and Lojban!

[twentydaysofmay]

Volapük gets tired of being treated like a punchline by languages like Esperanto, who considers him to be mere gibberish. Instead of eroding his own soul to conform to the other auxlangs' parochial and oppressive standards, he embraces the rejection he faces, manifesting in a form different from human.

Also, people kept misreading "voidpunk" as "Volapük", and I thought it would be funny to combine.

[vaguelyhumanshapedbeing]

Surely THIS time the new international auxiliary language will resonate with the masses and be adopted worldwide, not like the last one

[alcedeerie]

the boys are having fun today :D

[crescentaureola]

the fact that Volapꞟk (Volapük) doesnt use the Ꞛꞛ Ꞝꞝ Ꞟꞟ letters that ARE WAY BETTER AND PRETTIER than the boring ass umlaut makes me furious. USE THEM GODDAMN IT!!!!!!

[alsteneldoeight]

goober

there just came one point where i just. can't stop drawing him!!!

[fashionfotorecccluse]

Sample texts in Volapük

Mens valik pemotons libiko e leigiko tefü digäd e gitäts. Labons tikäli e konsieni, e sötons kosädön ko ods siämü svistäl.

Translation

All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood. (Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights)

[pipi-ko]

...Pretty sure that should have been "Vilob lärnön Volapüki".

Vilob lärnön Volapük

[schleyer]

[publicdomainreview]

During one sleepless night in 1879, German priest Johann Schleyer felt a Divine presence telling him to create a universal language. The result was Volapük. @ArikaOkrent explores the rise + fall of the first invented language to gain widespread success: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/truth-beauty-and-volapuk

[wuwubean]

i can’t get over the fact that the main language metaphor refantazio uses is esperanto. that’s the funniest possible way to do a fantasy language. someone should make a volapük fantasy game next

[yourfavespeaksaconlang]

simon petrikov from adventure time speaks volapük :-]

Simon Petrikov from Adventure Time speaks Volapük!

[alcedeerie]

🪄 lingwizard Follow

Magilinguistics and magiconlinguistics are so underrated. The idea that the specific language and syntax used to cast a spell can alter the efficiency and flow of a spell is amazing; it’s honestly infuriating how many people, including many mages, think Latin is the only valid conjuring language even though glossolalia is a WELL-DOCUMENTED PHENOMENON. I use many other languages in various spells and it’s really fun. Would recommend.

🪶 featherspells Follow

YOU CAN DO THAT? YOU CAN TRANSLATE LATIN SPELLS INTO A DIFFERENT LANGUAGE AND THEY’LL WORK!?! EVEN YOUR NATIVE LANGUAGE?!

🌱 gandalfbignaturals Follow

Yeah, welcome to the club! Using your native language isn’t recommended for summoning forces from other realms, though. The portals tend to collapse if you do that.

🗝️ keytomychest Follow

Wait wait wait, I just consulted my familiar about this, is magiconlinguistics modifying or inventing an entire language to optimize your magic? Because that sounds like something both extremely commendable and also batshit insane.

🌳 druid-ruin Follow

Yeah, that’s basically exactly what it is. We’re surprisingly pretty chill. I mean, except for that one time where someone hyper-optimized Taikureiden Suomen Kieli V5 to create the first, and most dangerous, known instance of the Everything-Damage Fireball spell, but we usually don’t talk about that.

🪄 lingwizard Follow

Ah, Taikureiden Suomen Kieli, the most absolutely broken magilang to ever exist. Go Finland, give us more fucked-up spells!

🪶 featherspells Follow

wait, the Everything-Damage Fireball is REAL? I thought you guys were joking.

🌳 druid-ruin Follow

We WERE joking. ONCE.

🔥 icastfireball Follow

on one hand, this is really cool and all, but on the other hand, i'm scared of what this can do. However, on the secret third hand, i kinda wanna modify a language to make demonic creatures physically sick upon hearing it, cause i wanna do a little trolling.

🪄 lingwizard Follow

Grand Mage Amara Lightningchain coming up with the idea for the Volapük Silananazunik experiments be like:

🔥 icastfireball Follow

hold on let me look something up

🔥 icastfireball Follow

wh. what the fuck

[flagwars]

Flag Wars Bonus Round

[renegade-hierophant]

Volapük, Esperanto, Ido, Novial, &c, &c, are dead, far deader than ancient unused languages, because their authors never invented any Esperanto legends.

J. R. R. Tolkien, Letters #180 to ‘Mr Thompson’ (draft), 14 January 1956