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Anyone interested in this would probably enjoy In the Land of Invented Languages[1]. It covers not only Volapük, but many other artificial languages, from Esper

• rob74 4y ago
  I admire anyone who sets out to invent a language... but of course, there are two categories: the "true" invented languages, which are intended to sound as "foreign" as possible to human ears (Klingon, Tolkien's languages, ...) and languages like Volapük and Esperanto, that were based on common roots of various languages in order to sound more familiar (at least to people who already speak a European language).
• flenserboy 4y ago
  Another book you may enjoy in this vein is Umberto Eco's The Search for the Perfect Language — https://www.amazon.com/Search-Perfect-Language-Making-Europe/dp/0631205101/ref=sr_1_1?crid=JS41IVB4RM1A&keywords=eco+search&qid=1653308774&s=books&sprefix=eco+search%2Cstripbooks%2C125&sr=1-1 https://www.amazon.com/Search-Perfect-Language-Making-Europe....
• zenbit 4y ago
  If you read German I highly recommend "Die Bienen und das Unsichtbare" by Clemens Setz.
• virgil_disgr4ce 4y ago
  I strongly second this recommendation. I loved this book.
• rsfinn 4y ago
  Written by the author of this article (Arika Okrent).