Romanid

Romanid
Created byZoltán Magyar
Date1956
Setting and usageInter-Romance auxiliary language
Purpose
Latin and Latin alphabet
SourcesA posteriori, naturalistic, based on the Romance languages
Language codes
ISO 639-3None (mis)
GlottologNone
IETFart-x-romanid

Romanid is a zonal auxiliary language for speakers of Romance languages, intended to be understandable to them without prior study. It was created by the Hungarian language teacher Zoltán Magyar, 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.[1]

The language is based on the most common word senses in French, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish.[2] It is rare, even in Hungary where it originated.[3] According to the Russian newspaper Trud, Romanid, from a structural point of view, is "considerably simpler and easier to learn than Esperanto."[4]

  1. ^ "Romanid Dokumentációs Projekt".
  2. ^ Иван Константинович Белодид, Развитие языков социалистических наций СССР. Институт Языковедения им. А. А. Потебни АН УССР, Kiev, 1969, p. 46.
  3. ^ "18. Demográfiai adatok – Központi Statisztikai Hivatal". www.nepszamlalas2001.hu. Archived from the original on 2018-06-17. Retrieved 2013-03-10.
  4. ^ Н. Югов, Легче, чем эсперанто. Trud, 1 February 1985.