How Romániço Works

Romániço is a rigorously agglutinative language, which is to say that it is entirely made up of roots and regularized affixes. In this way the language is a lot like a set of Lego bricks, for one can combine most any root with any other root or affix to form words in any part of speech:

mort- morter morto morte mortiva mortivo nemortiva mortanta mortinta mortifer patromortifo die to die death in/by death mortal (adj.) mortal (noun) immortal (adj.) dying dead to kill (“make die”) patricide (“father-killing”)

That all words in Romániço are built this way has the advantage of greatly reducing the number of words one needs to know in order to make oneself understood, for if one knows how to say to think in Romániço (penser), one automatically knows how to say a thought (penso), thinker (pensanto), thinking (pensanta), and so on — even if one has never encountered those words before. Moreover, there are enough affixes in Romániço to let one coin words on the fly should the need arise; if one doesn’t know the word for sad, for example, one can always say desalecra “the-opposite-of-happy”. Indeed, one could even get away with desjurno (“the-opposite-of-day”, i.e., “night”) if one had to.