Romanization
Transliteration or transcription to Latin letters / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Romanised" redirects here. For the racehorse, see Romanised (horse).
For other uses, see Romanisation (disambiguation) and Latinisation (disambiguation).
Not to be confused with Romanianization.
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 both. Transcription methods can be subdivided into phonemic transcription, which records the phonemes or units of semantic meaning in speech, and more strict phonetic transcription, which records speech sounds with precision.