Romanica is a planned language, built up from elements common to the Romance languages, the modern descendants of Latin. It is similar to the planned language Interlingua, of which it is sometimes described as a variant. It has far fewer speakers than Interlingua. An artificial or constructed language (known colloquially as a conlang among aficionados), is a language whose vocabulary and grammar were specifically devised by an individual or small group, rather than having naturally evolved as part of a culture as with natural languages. ... The Romance languages, also called Romanic languages, are a subfamily of the Italic languages, specifically the descendants of the Vulgar Latin dialects spoken by the common people evolving in different areas after the break-up of the Roman Empire. ... Latin is an Indo-European language originally spoken in the region around Rome called Latium. ... This article describes the international auxiliary language created by the IALA. For other usages of the term interlingua, see Interlingua (disambiguation). ...

After the fall of the Roman Empire, the various regional dialects of Vulgar Latin began to diverge, and eventually became mutually incomprehensible languages, now known as the Romance languages. The grammatical structures and vocabularies of these languages are still very similar. Romanica draws the common elements together into a complete idiom, partially comprehensible to anyone who knows one of the source languages. Its supporters say that prior study of Romanica greatly facilitates the study of any of the Romance languages. The Roman Empire is the term conventionally used to describe the Ancient Roman polity in the centuries following its reorganization under the leadership of Octavian (better known as Caesar Augustus). ... A dialect (from the Greek word διάλεκτος, dialektos) is a variety of a language used by people from a particular geographic area. ... Vulgar Latin (in Latin, sermo vulgaris) is a blanket term covering the vernacular dialects of the Latin language spoken mostly in the western provinces of the Roman Empire until those dialects, diverging still further, evolved into the early Romance languages — a distinction usually assigned to about the ninth century. ... Grammar is the discovery, enunciation, and study of rules governing the use of language. ... A vocabulary is a set of words known to a person or other entity, or that are part of a specific language. ... Look up Idiom on Wiktionary, the free dictionary An idiom is an expression whose meaning is not compositional—that is, whose meaning does not follow from the meaning of the individual words of which it is composed. ...

Romanica's vocabulary is mostly drawn from the Interlingua - English Dictionary (IED), published by The International Auxiliary Language Association (IALA) in 1951, and used as the basis of the international language Interlingua. Consequently, Romanica resembles Interlingua in many respects. However, its supporters say that Romanica is a distinct language in its own right, and not merely a variant form of "Interlingua de IALA". Simply put it could be considered a common denominator of the languages descended from Vulgar Latin. The International Auxiliary Language Association that existed from 1924 to 1954 was a notable proponent of international auxiliary languages. ... 1951 was a common year starting on Monday; see its calendar. ... This article describes the international auxiliary language created by the IALA. For other usages of the term interlingua, see Interlingua (disambiguation). ... This article describes the international auxiliary language created by the IALA. For other usages of the term interlingua, see Interlingua (disambiguation). ... Vulgar Latin (in Latin, sermo vulgaris) is a blanket term covering the vernacular dialects of the Latin language spoken mostly in the western provinces of the Roman Empire until those dialects, diverging still further, evolved into the early Romance languages — a distinction usually assigned to about the ninth century. ...

Romanica's grammar is derived from elements common to the Romance languages: adjectives agree in number and gender with their nouns, verbs are conjugated, and so on. An adjective is a part of speech which modifies a noun, usually making its meaning more specific. ... Number, in linguistics, is a grammatical category used to express the quantity of objects referred to by a noun. ... In linguistics, grammatical genders, also called noun classes, are classes of nouns requiring different agreement forms on determiners, adjectives, verbs or other words. ... A noun, or noun substantive, is a word or phrase that refers to a person, place, thing, event, substance or quality. ... A verb is a part of speech that usually denotes action (bring, read), occurrence (decompose, glitter), or a state of being (exist, stand). Depending on the language, a verb may vary in form according to many factors, possibly including its tense, aspect, mood and voice. ... In linguistics, conjugation is the creation of derived forms of a verb from its principal parts by inflection (regular alteration according to rules of grammar). ...

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• http://romanica.wikicities.com/wiki/Main_Page
• http://www.geocities.com/linguaromanica
• http://www.geocities.com/linguaromanica/Grammatica.htm
• http://www.geocities.com/chrestomathia_romanica/
• http://groups.yahoo.com/group/romanica/files
• http://groups.yahoo.com/group/romanica/messages
• http://groups.yahoo.com/group/novotestamento/files
• http://www.geocities.com/novotestamento2005/index.html
• http://www.geocities.com/dictionarioromanico