Volapükologist

The language Volapük itself quickly acquired support after it appeared, both in Europe and America.

In 1887 the American Philosophical Society established a commission for the evaluation of the scientific value of Volapük.

It can be said that at the end of the 19th century there were nearly a million volapükists in the world.

But shortly after the biggest and most successful Paris congress the movement divided into factions and most of its supporters took up new languages, like Idiom Neutral and Esperanto.

Although today there are still some people who learn and/or speak the language, they do it for philological and interlinguistical reasons rather than with the notion that Volapük might become a world auxiliary language.

A black-and-white portrait of a woman wearing spectacles
Louisa Dow Benton (1831–1895), an American volapükologist