Romance Orthographic Reintegrationism

Author: Sicilanguageist

Welcome to the official site for Romance Orthographic Reintegrationism (ROR). Use the menu above to navigate the proposal.

ROR, or Romance Orthographic Reintegrationism, is a set of guidelines that proposes how Romance minority languages (RMLs) should design their orthographies (writing systems) to align more closely with the major Romance languages like Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, Occitan, French, and Romanian.

Instead of creating one uniform spelling for all RMLs, ROR offers principles that encourage orthographic similarity across the Romance family, focusing on historical accuracy and relative simplicity. The goal is to improve mutual intelligibility between Romance languages and reduce the isolation of minority languages, while still allowing each language its individuality.

I am planning on transferring all of the proposal on this website, but since I have not been able to transfer the case studies yet, I encourage you to download the PDF.

View the Full Proposal

If you’d like to read the full guidelines in PDF form, you can do so by clicking the button below:

Download ROR Proposal (PDF)

The case study for Walloon (rifondou walon) is now available!