Romanization

//ˌɹəʊmənaɪˈzeɪʃən//

"Romanization" in a Sentence (6 examples)

Nicolas means that romanization of the Cyrillic alphabet is as beautiful as the sun, which burns your eyes when you look at it.

Learning Hokkien in its POJ Romanization might be interesting. There are at least 11 methods to write Hokkien. If Hokkien had a colour, it might be orange.

Read the dissertation "Writing Taiwanese: The Pe̍h-ōe-jī Romanization and Identity Construction in Taiwan," about the Hokkien Sinitic topolect.

It is the 8th of June of 2013. I am wishy-washy as to my conlang priorities. Do I want Esperanto and Lojban? Or, do I want Lojban first, then Esperanto? Do I need to add Interlingua next? I tend to think now that Lojban has first priority for me. Hidden away is still the Orange Dream, which, I think, would be something different from Vling and would be really super-duper. The Orange Dream would have a more quaint Romanization perhaps, with such things as 'qu' and 'ph'. The morphemes would be monosyllabic.

As an alternate name for Sakyamuni, Kircher gave "Omyto", which is a romanization of A-mi-to-fu, whom Kircher stated was commonly called "Amida", i.e., the Japanese pronunciation.

Furthermore, certain places and people are already internationally well known by particular romanizations of their names, and these romanizations may not conform to any of the official systems detailed above.

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