How to count in Volapük

Enter a number and get it written in full in Volapük.

Language overview

Volapük, from vol (world) and pük (language), is a constructed language, and more specifically an international auxiliary language, created in 1879 by Johann Martin Schleyer, in Germany.

Volapük numbering rules

  • Digits from zero to nine are rendered by specific words: ser [0], bal [1], tel [2], kil [3], fol [4], lul [5], mäl [6], vel [7], jöl [8], and zül [9].
  • The tens are formed by prefixing the word for ten (deg) with its multiplier digit, except for ten itself: deg [10], teldeg [20], kildeg [30], foldeg [40], luldeg [50], mäldeg [60], veldeg [70], jöldeg [80], and züldeg [90].
  • The hundreds are formed like the tens, i.e. by prefixing the word for hundred (tum) with its multiplier digit, except for one hundred itself: tum [100], teltum [200], kiltum [300], foltum [400]…
  • The thousands are formed like the tens and the hundreds, i.e. by prefixing the word for thousand (mil) with its multiplier digit, except for one thousand itself: mil [1,000], telmil [2,000], kilmil [3,000], folmil [4,000]…
  • Compound numbers are formed by stating the biggest number first, and going down the scale to the lower, separating them by a space (e.g.: deg tel [12], foltum luldeg mäl [456], telmil kiltum teldeg lul [2,325]).
  • Higher scale numbers follow the short scale numbers rule in which every new term greater than one million is one thousand times the previous term: balion [1 million] (106), telion [1 billion] (109).

Books

Grammar of VolapükGrammar of Volapük
by Johann Martin Schleyer, editors Nabu Press (2010)
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Comprehensive Volapük GrammarComprehensive Volapük Grammar
by Alfred A. Post, editors BiblioLife (2009)
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Numbers list

1 – bal
2 – tel
3 – kil
4 – fol
5 – lul
6 – mäl
7 – vel
8 – jöl
9 – zül
10 – deg
11 – deg bal
12 – deg tel
13 – deg kil
14 – deg fol
15 – deg lul
16 – deg mäl
17 – deg vel
18 – deg jöl
19 – deg zül
20 – teldeg
30 – kildeg
40 – foldeg
50 – luldeg
60 – mäldeg
70 – veldeg
80 – jöldeg
90 – züldeg
100 – tum
1,000 – mil
one million – balion
one trillion – telion

Auxiliary languages

Bolak, Digisk Folkspraak, Esperanto, Folkspraak, Idiom neutral, Ido, Intal, Interlingua, Interlingue, Latino sine flexione, Lingua Franca Nova, Mondial, Ro, Solresol, Sona, Spokil, Tutonish, Uropi, and Volapük.

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