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{{Infobox language
|name     = Romániço
|pronunciation={{IPA|/roˈmanitso/}}
|creator  = anon.
|created  = 1991
|setting  = [[International auxiliary language]]
|speakers = ?
|fam2     = [[Esperanto]]
|fam3     = [[Ido (language)|Ido]]
|posteriori = Most of the vocabulary from [[Romance languages|Romance]]
|iso3     = none
|glotto=none
}}

'''Romániço''' is a [[constructed language]], invented in 1991, which resembles [[Ido (language)|Ido]], and is derived from [[Esperanto]]. According to its creator, it is a simplified language using a [[Romance languages|Romance]] [[lexicon]]; it aims to "bridge the gap between the schematic and the naturalistic in constructed languages", combined the "easy-to-use grammar of the former with the more rigorously Romance lexicon and orthography of the latter".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://sites.google.com/site/romaniczo/|title=Romániço|work=A Practical Guide to Romániço|accessdate=28 July 2016}}</ref>

==Alphabet and pronunciation==
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center; table-layout:fixed"
|+ Romániço alphabet (+ digraphs)
! Number ||1||2||3||4||5||6||7||8||9||10||11||12||13||14||15||16||17||18||19||20||21||22||23||24||25||-||-||-||-||-||-||-
|-
![[Upper case]]
|[[A]]||[[B]]||[[C]]||[[D]]||[[E]]||[[F]]||[[G]]||[[H]]||[[I]]||[[J]]||[[K]]||[[L]]||[[M]]||[[N]]||[[O]]||[[P]]||[[R]]||[[S]]||[[T]]||[[U]]||[[V]]||[[W]]||[[X]]||[[Y]]||[[Z]]||[[Ç]]/CZ||[[Ģ]]/J||CH||GH||KH||SH||ÇH
|-
![[Lower case]]
|a||b||c||d||e||f||g||h||i||j||k||l||m||n||o||p||r||s||t||u||v||w||x||y||z||ç/cz||ģ/j||ch||gh||kh||sh||çh
|-
! [[International Phonetic Alphabet|IPA]] [[phoneme]]
|{{IPAlink|a}}
|{{IPAlink|b}}
|style="background-color:#fcc"|{{IPAlink|k}}, {{IPAlink|ts}}
|{{IPAlink|d}}
|{{IPAlink|e}}
|{{IPAlink|f}}
|{{IPAlink|g}}, {{IPAlink|dʒ}}
|{{IPAlink|h}}
|{{IPAlink|i}}
|style="background-color:#fcc"|{{IPAlink|ʒ}}
|
|{{IPAlink|l}}
|{{IPAlink|m}}
|{{IPAlink|n}}
|{{IPAlink|o}}
|{{IPAlink|p}}
|{{IPAlink|r}}
|{{IPAlink|s}}
|{{IPAlink|t}}
|{{IPAlink|u}}
|{{IPAlink|v}}
|{{IPAlink|w}}
|style="background-color:#fcc"|ks
|style="background-color:#fcc"|{{IPAlink|j}}
|{{IPAlink|z}}
|style="background-color:#fcc"|{{IPAlink|t͡s}}
|style="background-color:#fcc"|{{IPAlink|dʒ}}
|style="background-color:#fcc"|{{IPAlink|k}}, {{IPAlink|x}}
|style="background-color:#fcc"|{{IPAlink|g}}
|style="background-color:#fcc"|{{IPAlink|x}}
|style="background-color:#fcc"|{{IPAlink|ʃ}}
|style="background-color:#fcc"|{{IPAlink|t͡ʃ}}
|}
The Romániço alphabet consists of 25 letters of the [[ISO basic Latin alphabet]], and does not contain the letter [[q]]. The letter [[k]] is used only in the digraph ''kh''.  The official website states: "In earlier days, '''c''' represented {{IPA|[ts]}} in all positions, '''k''' [k] in all positions, which made spelling easier: '''il Greko parlen il Grekenso, il Franco parlen il Francenso''' instead of '''il Greco parlen il Grechenso, il Franço/Franczo parlen il Francenso'''".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.romaniczo.com/gramatico/en_gramatico_02.html|title=Romániço Alphabet and Pronunciation|accessdate=28 July 2016}}</ref>

The letters are pronounced as in [[Esperanto]], with the following exceptions: ''ç'' or ''cz'' is /ts/ before /a o u/; ''c'' is /k/ before /a o u/ and /ts/ before /e i/; ''ch'' is /k/ before /e i/ and /x/ before /a o u/; ''g'' is /g/ before /a o u/ and /dʒ/ before /e i/; ''gh'' is /g/ before /e i/; ''ģ'' or ''j'' is /dʒ/ before /a o u/, ''kh'' is /x/ before /i/; ''sh, w, x, y'' are as in English; ''çh'' is /tʃ/.

An acute accent is used when stress falls on the ante-penult. Stress rules otherwise follow Ido.

==Vocabulary==
[[Lexeme]]s are almost entirely [[derivation (linguistics)|derived]] from common [[Romance languages|Romance]] roots.

==Grammar==
There are several variants of Romániço, some of which differ rather substantially from the version presented here.

Romániço differs from Esperanto in not having [[inflection]] of [[noun]]s for [[grammatical case|case]].  At the same time, there is less flexibility in its [[word order]].  Even the [[personal pronoun]]s are [[uninflected word|invariable]] with respect to case [http://www.romaniczo.com/gramatico/en_gramatico_06.html#Personal]: ''mi'' (I/me), ''ti'' (you [singular, familiar]), ''vi'' (you [singular, formal]), ''ili'' (he/him), ''eli'' (she/her), ''hi'' (he/she/him/her), ''oli'' (it), ''si'' (oneself [reflexive]), ''nos'' (we/us), ''vos'' (you [plural]); ''ilos'' (they/them [masc.]), ''elos'' (they/them [fem.]), ''hos'' (they/them [human]), ''olos'' (they/them [non-human]). When an object appears elsewhere than after the verb, an accusative preposition ''je'' is used. For the possessives, ''-a'' is added, as in Esperanto.

The definite article is ''la'', the generic article ''il''. The latter is used for classes of things, as in 'birds fly'.

As in Esperanto, nouns end in ''-o'', adjectives in ''-a'', and adverbs in ''-e''. However, the nominal plural takes ''-s'', and there is no plural for adjectives.

The verbal inflections are infinitive ''-ar'', present ''-an'', past ''-in'', future ''-un'', conditional ''-eban'', imperative ''-es''. There is also a generic ending ''-en'' which may be used with a modal or temporal adverb. The modals are past ''has'', future ''van'', conditional ''volde'', imperative ''fay''.

==Common expressions==
Romániço versions of some common expressions are as follows [http://www.romaniczo.com/en_frasos.html]. 
*'''''Saluto''''' ("Hello")
*'''''Adeo''''' ("Goodbye")
*'''''Bona matino''''' ("Good morning")
*'''''Bona véspero''''' ("Good evening")
*'''''Sic''''' ("Yes")
*'''''No''''' ("No")
*'''''Mi prechen''''' ("Please")
*'''''Regratio''''' ("Thank you")
*'''''Senioro''''' ("Madam/Mrs./Sir/Mr.")
*'''''Senioreto''''' ("Miss/Sir" [non-adult])
*'''''Escue vi sapen parler Romániço?''''' ("Do you speak Romániço?")
*'''''Mi sapen parler pauco de Romániço.''''' ("I speak a little Romániço.")

==Study by academics==
Alan Reed Libert of the [[University of Newcastle, Australia]] discussed it in his ''Daughters of Esperanto''.<ref>{{cite book|last=Libert|first=Alan|title=Daughters of Esperanto|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gYQLAQAAMAAJ|year=2008|publisher=Lincom Europa|isbn=9783895867484}}</ref>

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
*[http://sites.google.com/site/romaniczo Romániço] (official website)
*[https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.jergym.hiedu.cz/~canovm/vyhledav/variant9/roma.htm Romániço Periodic Table] (archived at [[Wayback Machine]])
*[http://www.travelphrases.info/languages/conlangs.htm ConLang Travel Phrases]

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