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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 the Latin Church 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-HindiRomanization (cultural), the acculturation, integration, assimilation, of newly incorporated and peripheral populations by the Roman Republic and Roman Empire

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Latinisation or Latinization can refer to:

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