Uropi and Volapük (English)

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Uropi and Volapük

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Volapük is a constructed language which was created by Johann Martin Schleyer, a German catholic priest in 1879-1880.
See, in French: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volap%C3%BCk
or in English: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volap%C3%BCk

Uropi has sometimes been compared to Volapük, although these two international auxiliary languages (IAL) are very different.
However, our relations with Volapükists have always been rather positive: when Uropi came out in 1986, we were advised and supported by the great Dutch Volapükist leader, (the cifal) Filippus Johann Krüger, with whom we corresponded until his death in 1992. We greatly missed him; he gave us such good advice.

Why did some people compare Uropi and Volapük ?

The vocabulary

The first reason, I think, is undoubtedly that basic words in both languages are monosyllabic.
For example: Vol. vöd, nem, nuf, blod, zif, flen, tor, del, neit, län, yel, vat, fil… = Ur. vord, nom, tag, frat, pol, fram, taur, dia, noc, land, jar, vod, foj… (= word, name, roof, brother, town, friend, tower, day, night, country, year, water, fire…)
Certain words are exactly the same: man, flor, in, sol, kat, dom, pos, dol, vun, stel, su, flam… (man, flower, in, sun, cat, house, after, pain, wound, star, on