Yapänapük

Volapük

Etymology

Compound of Yapäna (“of Japan”), genitive singular of Yapän (“Japan”) + pük (“language”) (morpheme structure: Yapän (“Japan”) (bound morpheme Yap (“Japan”) + -än (“land / country”)) + -a (“genitive morpheme”) + pük (“language”) = Yapänapük (Japan's language))

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ja.pɛ.na.ˈpyk]
  • Hyphenation: Ya‧pä‧na‧pük

Proper noun

Yapänapük

  1. Japanese (language)

Declension
declension of Yapänapük
singular
nominative Yapänapük
genitive Yapänapüka
dative Yapänapüke
accusative Yapänapüki
vocative 1 o Yapänapük!
predicative 2 Yapänapüku
  • 1 status as a case is disputed
  • 2 in later, non-classical Volapük only

Derived terms
  • hi-Yapänapükan
  • ji-Yapänapükan
  • Yapänapükan
  • Yapänapükik
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