[Corpora-List] Where can we get texts in Volapuk?

[John F. Sowa]

Any artificial language is first and foremost an artificial
language.  The fact that the designer of a language L borrowed
sounds and/or words and/or syntactic features from certain
languages X, Y, and Z, does not imply that a typological study
would necessarily find L to be close to X, Y, or Z.

 > Volapuk... was based on English and German. Therefore, I presume
 > it must be typologically closer to the Germanic group of the
 > Indo-European language family.

The name Volapu"k combines the word 'vol', meaning 'world', with
the word 'pu"k', meaning 'speech'.  But the designer of that
language transformed those original words (and their sounds)
so drastically that they no longer resemble the originals.

Following is an excerpt from one of the Volapu"k web sites.
It wouldn't require a lot of statistical analysis to see
that the result hardly resembles English or German.

John Sowa
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Source: http://vo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cifapad

Pa"moto"l as Anne de Lenclos in Paris, pa"na"inemof „Ninon“ fa fat oka u"n 
cilu"p. Mot ofik a"vilof duga"lo"n ofi reliko, ab fat ofik a"stu"tom desiri 
ofik ad studo"n ed a"kuradu"kom ofi ad reido"n eli Montaigne. U"n 1632 
pa"xilom se Fransa"n seku" telkomip, e ven mot ofik a"deadof mo" yels deg pos 
atos, el Ninon no imatiko"l a"nu"golof ini kleud, keli a"lu"vof ya u"n yel a"so"ko"l.


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