Romanze Standar

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Conlang	Romanze Standar
Author	Dario Salazar
Year Began	2007
Language Type	international auxiliary language
Lexicon Size	1000
Etymologies	Romance languages
Grammar	Yes
Sample Texts	Yes
Primer	No

Romanze standar is a constructed language based on modern Romance languages, and using Latin as a control language.

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Description

The most important language of the western world was Latin, pitifully now a dead language. Nevertheless, Latin survive nowadays in what are usually called Romance languages, which have a smaller or greater degree of evolution with respect to Latin.

The Romanze standar does not try to be in fact one new language, but is a set of rules that guarantees the intelligibility between Romance languages.

This auxiliary language is designed to be spoken as a second language by people whose first language is a Romance language. In addition it could be used as an auxiliary language by speakers of non-Romance languages.

Being partly a constructed language, it has easy structures and few rules, without ambiguities of pronunciation and writing. Therefore, it combine qualities of an ancient language and those of a constructed language.

Note: We displayed in this work a preliminary version of the Romanze standard.

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Design principles

All the verbs must be regular, without ambiguity.
There are 3 genders: neutral, masculine, and feminine.
The verbs will come from:

Roots present in all Romance languages.
If no root are present in a majority of languages, the root used by more speakers is chosen.
If none of the a 2 options above are possible, one resorts to a root from Vulgar Latin, which act as a control language.
If it is not possible, a new root will be created, recognizable by as many speakers as possible, and preferably of Indo-European origin.

The other words will follow similar criteria.
The words must be spelled exactly as they are pronounced.
It must have a high degree of inteligibility with the main Romances languages.
The alphabet is the usual one, the Vulgar Latin alphabet with some modifications.
Neologisms must be possible by compounding/deriving existing words, and following the rules of Romance languages.
The Latin standardized is an alive language like all Romance languages.

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Interest of others

Put together, the Romances languages cover a major zone of influence in the world. Romance-speakers represent roughly 1/6th of the world population, in addition approximatively another 1/6th part uses languages greatly influenced by Latin.

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