Volapuk : a language invented in 1880 by Johann Martin Schleyer, a German cleric. Its grammar made it difficult to learn & it lost out to its more successful competitor Esperanto, which appeared in 1887.
... And, yes, in spite of his lack of fluency and accuracy in spoken French, he did speak in the School's French Debating Society, supporting the motion "Que la langue de Volapuk devrait être étudiée par tout le monde." ["That the Volapuk language 1 should be studied by everyone"]. In fact, his knowledge of French literature was quite extensive, and in time he acquired such mastery of this language that ...
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