Romanization

:In Antiquity, Romanization describes the spread of Roman culture and language.

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In linguistics, romanization or latinization is a system for representing a word or language with the Roman (Latin) alphabet, where the original word or language used a different writing system. Methods of romanization include transliteration, representing written text, and transcription, representing the spoken word. The latter can be subdivided into phonological transcription, which records the phonemes or units of semantic meaning in speech, and more strict phonetic transcription, which records speech sounds with precision. Each romanization has its own set of rules for pronunciation of the romanized words.

Related Topics:
Linguistics - Word - Language - Roman (Latin) alphabet - Writing system - Transliteration - Transcription - Phonological - Phonemes - Semantic - Phonetic

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To romanize is to transliterate or transcribe a language into the Roman alphabet. This process is most commonly associated with the Chinese, Japanese and Korean languages (CJK). Cyrillization is the similar process of representing a language using the Cyrillic alphabet.

Related Topics:
Chinese - Japanese - Korean - CJK - Cyrillization - Cyrillic alphabet

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Also spelled romanisation and latinisation.

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