The first two conventions used German, and the last conference used only Volapük.

Three major Volapük conventions were held, in 1884, 1887, and 1889 ; the last of them used Volapük as its working language.

And, unlike in the first two conventions, people spoke only Volapük.

Volapük (; ), also Volapuk, is a constructed language, created in 1879 – 1880 by Johann Martin Schleyer, a Roman Catholic priest in Baden, Germany.

On December 17, 1878 ( about one year before the first publication of Volapük ), Zamenhof celebrated his birthday and the birth of the language with some friends, who liked the project.

On March 20, 1891 ( a week after he became a military officer ), at the age of 25, he received his Volapük teacher's diploma, and after ten months, his Volapük instructor diploma.

He was known as a Civil War hero, and as a proponent of the constructed language Volapük, for which he authored the first major textbook in English, Handbook of Volapük ( 1888 ), as well as an early organizer of the accounting profession.

The words are also declined as any Volapük noun ( yurod / yurods in the nominative, yuroda / yurodas in the genitive ), yurode / yurodes in the dative ) and yurodi / yurodis in the accusative ; zim / zims, etc.

The most prosperous were Volapük ( 1879, Johann Martin Schleyer ), Esperanto ( 1887 Ludwik Lejzer Zamenhof ), Latino sine flexione ( 1903, Giuseppe Peano ), Ido ( 1907, Louis Couturat ), Occidental-Interlingue ( 1922, Edgar de Wahl ) and Interlingua ( 1951, IALA and Alexander Gode ), with Esperanto being the only one still gathering a considerable community of active speakers today.

Volapük was popular for some time and apparently had a few thousand users, but was later eclipsed by the popularity of Esperanto, which arose in 1887.

The Academy had its origin as the Kadem bevünetik volapüka ( literally ' International Academy of the World Language ') at a congress in Munich in August 1887, was set up to conserve and perfect the auxiliary language Volapük.

There may also have been a Volapük influence: there the vowels were present a -, future o -, past perfect i -, as well as imperfect ä-; Esperanto retained a distinction between preterite-is and an imperfect in-es until 1887, the year the modern form of the language was published.

The Academia was a descendant of the Kadem bevünetik volapüka ( International Academy of Volapük ) created at a Volapük congress in Munich in August 1887.

In 1889, there were an estimated 283 clubs, 25 periodicals in or about Volapük, and 316 textbooks in 25 languages ; at that time the language claimed nearly a million adherents.

He also provides a critical overview of the history of constructed IALs with sections devoted to Volapük, Esperanto, Idiom Neutral, Ido, Latino sine Flexione and Occidental ( Interlingue ).

The 1931 grammar of Volapük by Arie de Jong uses the comma as its decimal mark, and ( somewhat unusually ) uses the middle dot as the thousands separator ( 12 · 345 · 678, 90123 ).

* " Volapuk " encoding ( 1990s ): Slang term ( it's not really Volapük ) for a writing method that's not truly a transliteration, but used for similar goals ( see article ).

) He wrote Gramat Volapüka, a grammar of the language completely in Volapük, and a German-Volapük dictionary, Wörterbuch der Weltsprache ( World Language Dictionary ).

After only a year, on May 15, 1893, he became a Volapük professor ( reported in the newspaper " Nuns blefik se Volapükavol " ( Brief News in the World of Volapük ) the following year ).

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A freedman customarily took his former owner's family name, that is, the nomen ( see Roman naming conventions ) of his master's gens.

In recent elections, the eventual nominees were known well before the actual conventions took place.

In New Orleans, Stewart took his father's name and became active in the Republican Party, participating in Reconstruction state conventions.

A split between the electorally oriented SLP and the revolution-minded IWPA, which took with it a good portion of the SLP's left wing, including such prominent leaders as the English-speaking orator Albert Parsons and the German-speaking newspaper editor August Spies, began to develop early in the 1880s, with the split formalized by 1883, a year in which the SLP and the IWPA held competing conventions, in Baltimore and Pittsburgh, respectively.

The 1876 and 1877 conventions also took up this cause, and added to it the goal of providing centrally located ministerial and teacher education campuses.

Under Iceland naming conventions, his name would have been Magnús Sigursteinsson ( Magnús, son of Sigursteinn ), but his family adopted British naming conventions and he took his father's surname.

Several regional conventions took place in 1875, merging the activities of local political parties towards a single end.

However after emergence of certain sanctions from the Election Commission, the party presidium took initiatives to hold country-wide conventions for the elected grass-root leaders come up and be active part of the larger event to take place as the final stage.

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The CP was anxious not to scare off its partners and employers in the CIO: its members therefore made no effort to advertise their Party affiliation and even took steps not to pack SWOC conventions.

It took the form of musical theatre parody in which a well-known opera, play or ballet was adapted into a broad comic play, usually a musical play, often risqué in style, mocking the theatrical and musical conventions and styles of the original work, and quoting or pastiching text or music from the original work.

She then assumed the regency, and took the title of Grand Duchess, but she knew little of the character of the people with whom she had to deal, knew even less of the conventions and politics of Russian government, and speedily quarrelled with her principal supporters.

The idea took hold, and was followed by three more annual conventions.

This was, after all, a big-budget commercial boxed product that gleefully took risks and subverted genre conventions at every turn.

As a high school student, he took basic fundamental art courses, and attended comic book conventions at the nearby Disneyland Hotel, where he met creators such as George Pérez, John Romita Jr., Jim Shooter, Bob Layton, Mike Zeck and Marv Wolfman.

For many years Van Wyck took an active interest in Democratic Party matters, attending many conventions, state and national.

Although the DCU multiverse conventions had been set, the parallel world in which the comic adventures took place deviated significantly from the Golden Age stories that had been retroactively set on Earth-Two, following instead the setting of the TV show.

He took an active part in all the Republican conventions from 1902 to 1924 when he was a chairman at the 1924 Republican National Convention.

Contrary to most American furry conventions, Eurofurence traditionally took place at youth hostels.

In late 1774 and early 1775, they supervised the elections of provincial conventions, which took over the actual operation of colonial government.

From then on, the UK END group was very much a separate entity from the conventions, although it took part in them and was represented on the Liaison Committee.

SG-1 conventions by Creation Entertainment were also marketed as " The Official Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis Tour ", which mostly took place in the United States until Creation Entertainment acquired the license for Vancouver conventions in 2005.