Latinisation

Latinisation or Latinization can refer to:

• Latinisation of names, the practice of rendering a non-Latin name in a Latin style
• Latinisation in the Soviet Union, the campaign in the USSR during the 1920s and 1930s to replace traditional writing systems for numerous languages with the Latin alphabet
• Pinyin Romanization of Chinese or the earlier Latinxua Sin Wenz campaign in China, which originally sought to replace traditional Chinese characters with the Latin alphabet
• Liturgical Latinisation, the adoption of practices from Latin Christianity by the non-Latin Christians
• Re-latinization of Romanian, process by which the Latin features of the Romanian language were strengthened
• Latinism, a word, idiom, or structure derived from, or suggestive of, the Latin language; an aspect of Latinisation
• Romanization, the conversion of writing from a different writing system to the Roman (Latin) script
  • Romanization of Arabic
  • Romanization of Armenian
  • Romanisation of Bengali
  • Romanization of Burmese
  • Romanization of Chinese
  • Romanization of Cyrillic
  • Romanization of Devanagari
  • Romanization of Georgian
  • Romanization of Greek
  • Romanization of Hindi-Urdu (Hindustani)
  • Romanization of Japanese
  • Romanization of Khmer
  • Romanization of Korean
  • Romanization of Lao
  • Romanization of Malayalam
  • Romanization of Persian
  • Romanisation of Sindhi
  • Romanization of Telugu
  • Romanization of Thai
  • Romanization of Urdu-Hindi

• Romanization (cultural), the acculturation, integration, assimilation, of newly incorporated and peripheral populations by the Roman Republic and Roman Empire

See also

• Latin (disambiguation)
• List of Latinised names
• Binomial nomenclature 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
• Romanization (disambiguation)
• Transliteration or transcription into the Latin alphabet