| Romanid | |
| Creator: | Zoltán Magyar |
| Created: | 1956 |
| Speakers: | ? |
| 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 |
| Iso3: | none |
| Glotto: | none |
| Ietf: | art-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.[1]
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]