Brian Reynold Bishop [SEP] position held
Brian Reynold Bishop
Brian Reynold Bishop (born Kingston upon Thames, 1934) was the seventh Cifal (Chief) of the Volapük-speakers' community and President of the Volapük Academy.
Brian Bishop has been interested in languages since childhood. After having studied French, Spanish and Latin (he later supported the "Latinitas Viva" or Living Latin movement), he came into contact with constructed auxiliary languages such as Esperanto and Volapük. He started a long correspondence with Arie de Jong, the reformer of the Volapük language
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. Consequently, it can be said that today there are no volapükists anymore—only volapükologists. Nevertheless, the Volapük movement still exists, and is governed by the International Volapük Academy.
Contemporary volapükologists.
- Brian Reynold Bishop
- Jean-Claude Caraco
- André Cherpillod
- Michael Everson
- Reinhard Haupenthal
- Ralph Midgley