Romanization (disambiguation)

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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, practice of rendering a non-Latin name (or word) in a Latin style
  • Latinisation in the Soviet Union, the Latinization of languages inside the former USSR
  • Liturgical Latinisation, the practice of modifying Eastern Christian liturgical rites of the Catholic Church and other Christian bodies to more resemble the Latin liturgical rites
  • Representation in roman type of formerly italicized foreign words and phrases after they have become assimilated into English

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