Latinisation or Latinization can refer to: *

Latinisation of names Latinisation (or Latinization) of names, also known as onomastic Latinisation, is the practice of rendering a ''non''-Latin name in a Latin style. It is commonly found with historical proper names, including personal names and toponyms, and in ...

, the practice of rendering a non-Latin name in a Latin style *

Latinisation in the Soviet Union In the USSR, latinisation or latinization (russian: латиниза́ция, ') was the name of the campaign during the 1920s–1930s which aimed to replace traditional writing systems for all languages of the Soviet Union with systems that ...

, the campaign in the USSR during the 1920s and 1930s to replace traditional writing systems for numerous languages with the Latin alphabet *

Liturgical Latinisation Liturgical Latinisation is the process of adoption of Latin liturgical rites by non-Latin Christian denominations, particularly within Eastern Catholic liturgy. Throughout history, liturgical Latinisation was manifested in various forms. In Early ...

, the adoption of practices from Latin Christianity by the non-Latin Christians *

Re-latinization of Romanian The re-latinization of Romanian (also known as re-romanization) was the reinforcement of the Romance features of the Romanian language during the 18th and 19th centuries. In this period, Romanian adopted a Latin-based alphabet to replace the Cyril ...

, process by which the Latin features of the Romanian language were strengthened *

Latinism A Latinism (from lat-med, Latinismus) is a word, idiom, or structure in a language other than Latin that is derived from, or suggestive of, the Latin language. The Term ''Latinism'' refers to those loan words that are borrowed into another lan ...

, a word, idiom, or structure derived from, or suggestive of, the Latin language; an aspect of Latinisation *

Romanization Romanization or romanisation, in linguistics, is the conversion of text from a different writing system to the Roman (Latin) script, or a system for doing so. Methods of romanization include transliteration, for representing written text, a ...

, the conversion of writing from a different writing system to the Roman (Latin) script **

Romanization of Arabic The romanization of Arabic is the systematic rendering of written and spoken Arabic in the Latin script. Romanized Arabic is used for various purposes, among them transcription of names and titles, cataloging Arabic language works, language e ...

** Romanization of Armenian **

Romanisation of Bengali Romanisation of Bengali is the representation of written Bengali language in the Latin script. Various romanisation systems for Bengali are used, most of which do not perfectly represent Bengali pronunciation. While different standards for roman ...

** Romanization of Burmese **

Romanization of Chinese Romanization of Chinese () is the use of the Latin alphabet to transliterate Chinese. Chinese uses a logographic script and its characters do not represent phonemes directly. There have been many systems using Roman characters to represent C ...

** Romanization of Cyrillic ** Romanization of Devanagari ** Romanization of Georgian **

Romanization of Greek Romanization of Greek is the transliteration ( letter-mapping) or transcription (sound-mapping) of text from the Greek alphabet into the Latin alphabet. History The conventions for writing and romanizing Ancient Greek and Modern Greek differ ...

** Romanization of Hindi-Urdu (Hindustani) **

Romanization of Japanese The romanization of Japanese is the use of Latin script to write the Japanese language. This method of writing is sometimes referred to in Japanese as . Japanese is normally written in a combination of logographic characters borrowed from Ch ...

Romanization of Khmer The romanization of Khmer is a representation of the Khmer (Cambodian) language using letters of the Latin alphabet. This is most commonly done with Khmer proper nouns, such as names of people and geographical names, as in a gazetteer. Romaniz ...

Romanization of Korean Romanization of Korean refers to systems for representing the Korean language in the Latin script. Korea's alphabetic script, called Hangul, has historically been used in conjunction with Hanja (Chinese characters), though such practice has bec ...

Romanization of Lao Lao romanization systems are transcriptions of the Lao script into the Latin alphabet. Tables Consonants The table below shows the Lao consonant letters and their transcriptions according to IPA ( International Phonetic Alphabet,) BGN/PCG ...

Romanization of Malayalam There are several romanization schemes for the Malayalam script, including ITRANS and ISO 15919. ASCII schemes Typesetting Malayalam on computers became an issue with their spread in the late 20th century. The lack of diacritics on keyboards led ...

** Romanization of Persian ** Romanisation of Sindhi ** Romanization of Telugu ** Romanization of Thai ** Romanization of Urdu-Hindi *

Romanization (cultural) Romanization or Latinization (Romanisation or Latinisation), in the historical and cultural meanings of both terms, indicate different historical processes, such as acculturation, integration and assimilation of newly incorporated and peripheral ...

, the acculturation, integration, assimilation, of newly incorporated and peripheral populations by the Roman Republic and Roman Empire

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