Latinisation
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Latinisation or Latinization could refer to:
  • Latinisation of names, a literary practice of writing a name in a Latin style when writing in Latin
  • the representation of different writing systems in the Roman alphabet, also called Romanization
    Romanization
    In linguistics, romanization or latinization is the representation of a written word or spoken speech with the Roman script, or a system for doing so, where the original word or language uses a different writing system . Methods of romanization include transliteration, for representing written...

    • Latinisation (USSR)
      Latinisation (USSR)
      In the USSR, latinisation was the name of the campaign during the 1920s-1930s which aimed to replace traditional writing systems for numerous languages with the Latin alphabet and to create for languages had no writing. Almost all Turkic, Iranian, Uralic and several other languages were romanized,...

      , the campaign in the USSR during the 1920s and 1930s to replace traditional writing systems for numerous languages with the Latin alphabet
  • Latinization (historical), the spread of Roman culture, law, and language, also referred to as Romanization (cultural)
    Romanization (cultural)
    Romanization or latinization indicate different historical processes, such as acculturation, integration and assimilation of newly incorporated and peripheral populations by the Roman Republic and the later Roman Empire...

  • Liturgical Latinisation
    Liturgical Latinisation
    Liturgical Latinisation, also known as Latinisation, is the process by which liturgical and other aspects of the Churches of Eastern Christianity were altered to resemble more closely the practices of the Latin Rite of the Catholic Church...

    , the adoption of practices from Western Christianity by the Eastern Churches

Biology

  • the giving of Greek or Latin binomial names to identified species; see binomial nomenclature
    Binomial nomenclature
    Binomial nomenclature is 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, although they can be based on words from other languages...

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