Romanid is a
zonal auxiliary language for speakers of
Romance languages
The Romance languages, also known as the Latin or Neo-Latin languages, are the languages that are Language family, directly descended from Vulgar Latin. They are the only extant subgroup of the Italic languages, Italic branch of the Indo-E ...
, intended to be understandable to them without prior study. It was created by the
Hungarian language teacher
Zoltán Magyar
Zoltán Magyar (born 13 December 1953) is a Hungarian former gymnast who was the world's leading pommel horse gymnast in the 1970s. In this event he won two Olympic, three world, three European and two World Cup titles. Magyar had two moves n ...
, 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,
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."
[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, 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 auxiliary languages
Constructed languages
Constructed languages introduced in the 1950s