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Romanization (disambiguation)
 
  Romanization may refer to:
  • Romanization
    Romanization

    In linguistics, romanization is the representation of a written word or spoken speech with the Latin alphabet, or a system for doing so, where the original word or language uses a different writing system ....
    , the representation in the Latin alphabet of a language normally written in another writing system
  • Romanization (cultural)
    Romanization (cultural)

    Romanization was a gradual process of cultural assimilation, in which the conquered "barbarians" gradually adopted and largely replaced their own native culture with the culture of their conquerors - the Romans....
    , the expansion of Roman culture, law, and language
  • Latinisation (literature)
    Latinisation (literature)

    In literature, Latinization is the practice of writing a name in a Latin style when writing in Latin so as to more closely emulate Latin authors, or to present a more impressive image....
    , translation and adaptation of names into the Latin language
  • Latinisation (USSR)
    Latinisation (USSR)

    In the USSR, latinization 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....
    , the Latinization of languages inside the former USSR
  • Romanization (religious), the practice of modifying other rites of the Catholic Church to more resemble the Latin (Roman) rite. The proper term is Liturgical Latinisation
    Liturgical Latinisation

    Liturgical Latinisation, also known as Latinisation is the process by which liturgy 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....