Editing Volapük (section)

==Vocabulary==
Schleyer adapted the [[vocabulary]] mostly from [[English language|English]], with a smattering of [[German language|German]] and [[French language|French]].  Some words  remain readily recognizable for a speaker of one of the source languages, but many others are modified beyond easy recognition.<ref name="alexander2005">"For example, while it is true that words like vol and pük don't really look like world and speak, but the whole language is not like that.  Scores of words are very obvious as what they mean&nbsp;– if, fasilik, gudik/badik, smalik, jerik (pronounced sherík&nbsp;– expensive), bank, bäk (back), deadik".&nbsp;– [http://listserv.brown.edu/archives/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0511C&L=AUXLANG&P=R231&D=0&T=0 "What the L!"], AUXLANG list posting by Thomas Alexander, 15 November 2005.</ref> For instance, ''vol'' and ''pük'' are derived from the English words ''world'' and ''speak''. Although unimportant linguistically, and regardless of the simplicity and consistency of the stress rule, these deformations were greatly mocked by the language's detractors. It seems to have been Schleyer's intention, however, to alter its loan words in such a way that they would be hard to recognise, thus losing their ties to the languages (and, by extension, nations) from which they came. Conversely, [[Esperanto]] and [[Interlingua]] are commonly criticized as being much easier to learn for [[European ethnic groups|European]]s than for those with non-European native languages.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Fiedler |first1=Sabine |title=The topic of planned languages (Esperanto) in the current literature |journal=Language Problems and Language Planning |date=2015 |volume=39 |issue=1 |pages=84–104|doi=10.1075/lplp.39.1.05fie }}</ref>