Latinisation or Latinization can refer to:
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Latinisation of names, the practice of rendering a non-Latin name in a Latin style
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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 wo ...
, the campaign in the USSR during the 1920s and 1930s to replace traditional writing systems for numerous languages with the Latin alphabet
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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
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Re-latinization of Romanian, process by which the Latin features of the Romanian language were strengthened
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Latinism, a word, idiom, or structure derived from, or suggestive of, the Latin language; an aspect of Latinisation
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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
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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 ...
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Romanization of Armenian
There are various systems of romanization of the Armenian alphabet.
Transliteration systems
Hübschmann-Meillet (1913)
In linguistic literature on Classical Armenian, the commonly used transliteration is that of Hübschmann-Meillet (1913). I ...
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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 ...
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Romanization of Burmese
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Romanization of Chinese
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Romanization of Cyrillic The romanization of Cyrillic is the process of converting text written in the Cyrillic script into the Latin (or Roman) alphabetic script, or a system for such conversion.
Conversion of scripts can be classified as either the letter-by-letter t ...
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Romanization of Devanagari
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Romanization of Georgian
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Romanization of Greek
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Romanization of Hindi-Urdu (Hindustani)
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Romanization of Japanese
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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.
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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 ...
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Romanization of Lao
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Romanization of Malayalam
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Romanization of Persian
Romanization of Persian or Latinization of Persian ( fa, لاتیننویسی فارسی, Lâtin-Nevisi-ye Fârsi, link=no, ) is the representation of the Persian language ( Iranian Persian, Dari and Tajik) with the Latin script. Several diff ...
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Romanisation of Sindhi
Sindhi romanisation or Latinization of Sindhi is a system for representing the Sindhi language using the Latin script.
In Sindh, Pakistan the Sindhi language is written in modified persio-Arabic script and in India it is written in Devanagari (Hi ...
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Romanization of Telugu
There are several systems for romanization of the Telugu script.
Systems
Vowels
Consonants
Irregular Consonants
Other diacritics
* Virama ( ్) mutes the vowel of a consonant, so that only the consonant is pronounced. Example: క ...
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Romanization of Thai
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Romanization of Urdu-Hindi
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Romanization (cultural), the acculturation, integration, assimilation, of newly incorporated and peripheral populations by the Roman Republic and Roman Empire
See also
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Latin (disambiguation)
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List of Latinised names
The Latinisation of names in the vernacular was a procedure deemed necessary for the sake of conformity by scribes and authors when incorporating references to such persons in Latin texts. The procedure was used in the era of the Roman Republic an ...
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Binomial nomenclature
In taxonomy, binomial nomenclature ("two-term naming system"), also called nomenclature ("two-name naming system") or binary nomenclature, is a formal system of naming species of living things by giving each a name composed of two parts, bot ...
a formal system of naming species of living things by giving each a name composed of two parts, both of which use Latin grammatical forms
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Romanization (disambiguation)
Romanization is the representation in the Latin alphabet of a language normally written in another writing system.
Romanization may also refer to:
*Romanization (cultural), the expansion of Roman culture, law, and language
*Latinisation of names, ...
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Transliteration
Transliteration is a type of conversion of a text from one script to another that involves swapping letters (thus ''trans-'' + '' liter-'') in predictable ways, such as Greek → , Cyrillic → , Greek → the digraph , Armenian → or L ...
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transcription into the
Latin alphabet
The Latin alphabet or Roman alphabet is the collection of letters originally used by the ancient Romans to write the Latin language. Largely unaltered with the exception of extensions (such as diacritics), it used to write English and th ...
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