Showing posts with label books. Show all posts
Showing posts with label books. Show all posts

Thursday, January 6, 2011

Free Volapük books online

Here is a list of Volapük books that are available for free in PDF format online. (Some say they are available in Kindle format, but I've found these versions to be badly scanned, uncorrected and thus unusable.) These are all in the original Volapuk, not the modern revision, and are all in the public domain. Some may be in print, available through Amazon.com. If you find any other Volapuk books available online, please add them in a comment.

A Dictionary of the English and Volapük languages: John Rellye, 1888
http://www.archive.org/details/adictionaryengl00rellgoog
Dictionary of Volapük: Volapük-English, English-Volapük: Marshall William Wood, 1889 http://www.archive.org/details/dictionaryvolap01woodgoog
Hand-book of Volapük: Charles Ezra Sprague, 1888
http://www.archive.org/details/handbookvolapk00spragoog
Volaspodel: a monthly magazine devoted to the propagation.... 1893
http://www.archive.org/details/volaspodelamont00unkngoog
Volapük: An Easy Method... Klas August Linderfelt, 1887
http://www.archive.org/details/volapkaneasymet00lindgoog
Volapük, or, Universal language : a short grammatical course: Alfred Kirchhoff, 1888
http://www.archive.org/details/volapukorunivers00kirciala
International Commercial Language: Abridged Grammar of Volapük, Auguste Kerchhoffs, 1888
http://www.archive.org/details/internationalco01kercgoog
Dictionnaire volapük-français et français-volapük, précédé d'une grammaire complète de la langue: Kerchhoffs & Schleyer (1887)
http://www.archive.org/details/dictionnairevol00kercgoog
Comprehensive Volapük Grammar, Alfred A. Post (1890)
http://www.archive.org/details/comprehensivevo00postgoog

Wednesday, September 1, 2010

Volapük-English dictionaries



On Amazon.com there are a number of Volapük books available as reprints. One of them is Wood's Dictionary of Volapük: Volapük-English, English-Volapük which was originally published over a hundred years ago.

This means it was published before the revision of the Volapük language in 1931. While this dictionary would be of historical value and of use to the advanced student, I wonder if it would be very helpful to the beginning student.

There is a dictionary in modern Volapük by Ralph Midgely. It is available at the Volapük Online Resource in PDF or Microsoft Word formats. I don't know if there are plans to put this dictionary into real book form. But in this day of on-demand publishers such as Lulu.com, one can always hope. Until then we must be content to either keep the dictionary as a file on our computers, or go through the effort to print the pages out and put them into a binder. (Get a BIG binder.)