Johann martin schleyer biography
Johann Martin Schleyer (German pronunciation: [ˈjoːhan ˈmaʁtiːn ˈʃlaɪɐ]; 18 July – 16 August ) was a....
Volapük
Volapük was created by Johann Martin Schleyer (1831-1912), a German priest who lived in Grand Duchy of Baden, which has been part of Baden-Württemberg in the southwest of Germany since 1952.
Schleyer claimed the idea for creating an international language was suggested to him by God in a dream.
Johann Martin Schleyer was a German Catholic priest who invented the constructed language Volapük.
His aim was to create a language which was "capable of expressing thought with the greatest clearness and accuracy" (Sprague, 1888) and was easy for as many people as possible to learn.
Schleyer published an article on Volapük in Sionsharfe, a magzine he edited, in May 1879.
He published a book about the language in 1880. The name of the language means "speech of the world": vola is the genitive form of vol (world) and pük is derived from speak.
Schleyer based the vocabulary of Volapük on German, English, French, Italian, Spanish and Russian.
He eliminated sounds that would be difficult for speakers of other languages to pronoun