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  2. Romanization - Wikipedia

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    In linguistics, romanization is the conversion of text from a different writing system to the Roman (Latin) script, or a system for doing so. Methods of romanization include transliteration, for representing written text, and transcription, for representing the spoken word, and combinations of

  3. Romanization (cultural) - Wikipedia

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    Creolization [21] – Romanization occurs as a result of negotiation between different elements of non-egalitarian societies and so material culture is ambiguous. One additional reason behind the romanization process was the "Spread of Catholicism". Christianity actually is centered in Rome, and believes that a Roman Bishop is the supreme head ...

  4. Historiography of Romanisation - Wikipedia

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    The historiography of Romanisation is the study of the methods, sources, techniques, and concepts used by historians when examining the process of Romanisation.The Romanisation process affected different regions differently, [1] meaning that there is no singular definition for the concept, however it is generally defined as the spread of Roman civilisation and culture throughout Italy and the ...

  5. Transliteration - Wikipedia

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    Transliteration is the process of representing or intending to represent a word, phrase, or text in a different script or writing system. Transliterations are designed to convey the pronunciation of the original word in a different script, allowing readers or speakers of that script to approximate the sounds and pronunciation of the original word.

  6. Romanization (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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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

  7. List of English words of Yiddish origin - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of words that have entered the English language from the Yiddish language, many of them by way of American English.There are differing approaches to the romanization of Yiddish orthography (which uses the Hebrew alphabet); thus, the spelling of some of the words in this list may be variable (for example, shlep is a variant of schlep, and shnozz, schnoz).

  8. Wade–Giles - Wikipedia

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    It developed from the system produced by Thomas Francis Wade during the mid-19th century, and was given completed form with Herbert Giles's A Chinese–English Dictionary (1892). The romanization systems in common use until the late 19th century were based on the Nanjing dialect, but Wade–Giles was based on the Beijing dialect and was the ...

  9. Re-latinization of Romanian - Wikipedia

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    The re-latinization of Romanian (also known as re-romanization) [1] was the reinforcement of the Romance features of the Romanian language that happened in the 18th and 19th centuries. Romanian adopted a Latin-based alphabet to replace the Cyrillic script and borrowed many words from French as well as from Latin and Italian, in order to acquire ...