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.

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Vinony's link graph records 157 inbound references to Romanid, and connects out to Esperantido, Hungary and Spanish.

It sits within the topics Conlangs without ISO 639-3 code, Constructed languages and Constructed languages introduced in the 1950s.

Vinony links it to 12 Wikipedia language editions.

Key facts

Language.name: Romanid
Language.creator: Zoltán Magyar
Language.created: 1956
Language.speakers: 10 in Hungary (2001)
Language.setting: Inter-Romance auxiliary language
Language.fam1: Constructed language
Language.fam2: International auxiliary language
Language.fam3: zonal auxiliary language
Language.posteriori: A posteriori, naturalistic, based on the Romance languages
Language.script: Latin and Latin alphabet
Language.iso3: none
Language.glotto: none
Language.ietf: art-x-romanid

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Wikidata facts

Instance of: constructed language

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inception: 1956-00-00

Sources (3)

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Encyclopedic overview

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The language is based on the most common word senses in French, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish. 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."

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Romanid” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.