Romanized

"Romanized" in a Sentence (6 examples)

Hercules is the Romanized form of the name of the most famous Greek legendary hero, Heracles.

Many Berbers were heavily Romanized from the 2nd century AD on.

To me, written Finnish is reminiscent of Romanized Japanese.

A motivation for East Asians to conserve their sinograms is to distinguish many homonyms. In speech, context tells the listener what is the intended meaning. In the PRC, Pinyin documentation, Romanized Mandarin, is available for minorities who cannot read sinograms. Somehow, they make do.

When I attended a Thai Buddhist temple in Vancouver, BC, the monk asked me to help him to use accents on the Pali-language Romanized text on his computer. It was difficult, because at that time, Unicode was still embryonic. Unicode is ubiquitous on devices now.

The sinuous, Arabic-based script was the main method of writing Malay until the language was romanized by the British in the early 20th century, and is little practiced today outside of mosques and madrassas.

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.