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]
| Romanid | |
|---|---|
| Created by | Zoltán Magyar |
| Date | 1956 |
| Setting and usage | Inter-Romance auxiliary language |
| Purpose | |
| Latin and Latin alphabet | |
| Sources | A posteriori, naturalistic, based on the Romance languages |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | None (mis) |
| Glottolog | None |
| IETF | art-x-romanid |
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]
Example
edit- (1957 version)
- Moy lingva project nominad Romanid fu publicad ja in may de pasad ano cam scientific studium in hungar lingva...
- (1984 version)
- Mi lingua project nominat Romanid esed publicat ja in may de pasat an cam scientific studio in hungar lingua...
- (translation)
- My language project called Romanid was published already in May of last year as a scientific study in Hungarian...
References
edit- ^ "Romanid Dokumentációs Projekt".
- ^ Иван Константинович Белодид, Развитие языков социалистических наций СССР. Институт Языковедения им. А. А. Потебни АН УССР, Kiev, 1969, p. 46.
- ^ "18. Demográfiai adatok – Központi Statisztikai Hivatal". www.nepszamlalas2001.hu. Archived from the original on 2018-06-17. Retrieved 2013-03-10.
- ^ Н. Югов, Легче, чем эсперанто. Trud, 1 February 1985.
Literature
edit- 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 (ISBN 963 471 337 8).
- Zsuzsa Varga-Haszonits, "Romanid". In: István Fodor, A világ nyelvei. Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest, 1999 (ISBN 963 05 7597 3), pp. 1222–1223.