Romanid

{{Short description|Constructed language created in 1956}}

{{Infobox language

| name = Romanid

| imageheader =

| image =

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| creator = Zoltán Magyar

| created = 1956

| speakers = 10 in Hungary (2001)https://web.archive.org/web/20180617000434/http://www.nepszamlalas2001.hu/hun/kotetek/18/tables/load2_39_1.html

| setting = Inter-Romance auxiliary language

| fam1 = Constructed language

| fam2 = International auxiliary language

| fam3 = zonal auxiliary language

| posteriori = A posteriori, naturalistic, based on the Romance languages

| script = Latin and Latin alphabet

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| iso3 = none

| glotto = none

|ietf = [https://www.kreativekorp.com/clcr/ art-x-romanid]

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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.{{cite web | url=http://romanid.nyelv.info/english.html | title=Romanid Dokumentációs Projekt }}

The language is based on the most common word senses in French, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish.Иван Константинович Белодид, [https://books.google.com/books?id=68U-AAAAIAAJ&q=%D0%A0%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B4 Развитие языков социалистических наций СССР]. Институт Языковедения им. А. А. Потебни АН УССР, Kiev, 1969, p. 46. It is rare, even in Hungary where it originated.{{Cite web|url=http://www.nepszamlalas2001.hu/hun/kotetek/18/tables/load2_39_1.html|title=18. Demográfiai adatok – Központi Statisztikai Hivatal|website=www.nepszamlalas2001.hu|access-date=2013-03-10|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180617000434/http://www.nepszamlalas2001.hu/hun/kotetek/18/tables/load2_39_1.html|archive-date=2018-06-17|url-status=dead}} According to the Russian newspaper Trud, Romanid, from a structural point of view, is "considerably simpler and easier to learn than Esperanto."Н. Югов, [http://se-ol.chat.ru/lingvoj.htm#C Легче, чем эсперанто]. Trud, 1 February 1985.