Romanid is a
zonal auxiliary language
Zonal auxiliary languages, or zonal constructed languages, are constructed languages made to facilitate communication between speakers of a certain group of closely-related languages. They form a subgroup of the international auxiliary languages b ...
for speakers of
Romance languages
The Romance languages, sometimes referred to as Latin languages or Neo-Latin languages, are the various modern languages that evolved from Vulgar Latin. They are the only extant subgroup of the Italic languages in the Indo-European language fam ...
, intended to be understandable to them without prior study. It was created by the
Hungarian language teacher
Zoltán Magyar
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, who published a first version in May 1956 and a second in December 1957. In 1984, he published a phrasebook with a short grammar, in which he presents a slightly more simplified version of the language.
The language is based on the most common word senses in
French,
Italian
Italian(s) may refer to:
* Anything of, from, or related to the people of Italy over the centuries
** Italians, an ethnic group or simply a citizen of the Italian Republic or Italian Kingdom
** Italian language, a Romance language
*** Regional Ita ...
,
Portuguese
Portuguese may refer to:
* anything of, from, or related to the country and nation of Portugal
** Portuguese cuisine, traditional foods
** Portuguese language, a Romance language
*** Portuguese dialects, variants of the Portuguese language
** Portu ...
and
Spanish
Spanish might refer to:
* Items from or related to Spain:
**Spaniards are a nation and ethnic group indigenous to Spain
**Spanish language, spoken in Spain and many Latin American countries
**Spanish cuisine
Other places
* Spanish, Ontario, Can ...
. It is rare, even in Hungary where it originated. According to the Russian newspaper
Trud, Romanid, from a structural point of view, is "considerably simpler and easier to learn than Esperanto."
[Н. Югов]
Легче, чем эсперанто
Trud, 1 February 1985.
Example
;(1957 version):
:
;(1984 version)
:
;(translation)
: My language project called Romanid was published already in May of last year as a scientific study in Hungarian...
References
Literature
* Zoltán Magyar. ''A Romanid nyelv rövid nyelvtana''. Debrecen, 1958.
* Zoltán Magyar, "Mi az interlingvisztika? (A nemzetközi világnyelvekről)". In:
Alföld
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, no. 8, 1965.
* Zoltán Magyar, ''Romanid. Tájékoztató és társalgási könyv'', Kossuth Lajos Tudományegyetem, Debrecen, 1984 ().
* Zsuzsa Varga-Haszonits, "Romanid". In: István Fodor, ''A világ nyelvei''. Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest, 1999 (), pp. 1222–1223.
External links
Romanid Documentations Project
Grammatical Guide to the Romanid Language
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Zonal constructed languages
Constructed languages
Constructed languages introduced in the 1950s