Romanid
Romanid is a zonal constructed 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.
The language is based on the most common word senses in French, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish. It is said to enjoy some popularity among Hungarians. According to the Russian newspaper Trud, Romanid, from a structural point of view, is "considerably simpler and easier to learn than Esperanto."Example
' Moy lingva project nominad Romanid fu publicad ja in may de pasad ano cam scientific studium in hungar lingva...
' Mi lingua project nominat Romanid esed publicat ja in may de pasat an cam scientific studio in hungar lingua...
My language project called Romanid was published already in May of last year as a scientific study in Hungarian...Literature
- Zoltán Magyar. A Romanid nyelv rövid nyelvtana. Debrecen, 1958.
- Zoltán Magyar, "Mi az interlingvisztika? ". 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.
