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, 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
• Romanization (religious), the practice of modifying other rites of the Catholic Church (or even of Orthodox churches) to more resemble the Latin (Roman) rite; the proper term is liturgical Latinisation
• Representation in roman type of formerly italicized foreign words and phrases after they have become assimilated into English

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