Romanid

Romanid
Created byZoltán Magyar
Date1956
Setting and usageInter-Romance auxiliary language
Users10 in Hungary (2001)
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.

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."