Romanization (disambiguation)
Overview
 
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...

is the representation in the Latin alphabet of a language normally written in another writing system. Some other meanings are as follows:
  • 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...

    , the expansion of Roman culture, law, and language
  • Latinisation (literature)
    Latinisation (literature)
    Latinisation is the practice of rendering a non-Latin name in a Latin style. It is commonly met with for historical personal names, with toponyms, or for the standard binomial nomenclature of the life sciences. It goes further than Romanisation, which is the writing of a word in the Latin alphabet...

    , translation and adaptation of names into the Latin language
  • 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 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.
Quotations

Well, their poster child doesn't know it yet, but she's into me.

I guess I'll see you around...'same bat time' or whatever.

[to Janet] Remember when you got drunk and nearly got the chancellor of Bulgaria killed? I covered for you!

[to Lucy] I'm here because I feel more like me when I'm with you, than I do when I'm with me.

I think love should be irresistible, like a drug, you know? I think when it happens you should just not be able to help yourself. I just - I wanted... more. Dominique: You're not as boring as I thought. But you're not as bright, either.

Mr Phipps: You are a perfect liar.

Scud: Knock 'em dead... but not really.

Janet: Have you seen my gun?

They're crime-fighting hotties with killer bodies.

 
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