# Latinisation

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**Latinisation** or **Latinization** can refer to:

- [Latinisation of names](/source/Latinisation_of_names), the practice of rendering a non-Latin name in a Latin style
- [Latinisation in the Soviet Union](/source/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](/source/Pinyin) [Romanization of Chinese](/source/Romanization_of_Chinese) or the earlier [Latinxua Sin Wenz](/source/Latinxua_Sin_Wenz) campaign in China, which originally sought to replace traditional [Chinese characters](/source/Chinese_characters) with the Latin alphabet
- [Liturgical Latinisation](/source/Liturgical_Latinisation), the adoption of practices from Latin Christianity by the non-Latin Christians
- [Re-latinization of Romanian](/source/Re-latinization_of_Romanian), process by which the Latin features of the Romanian language were strengthened
- [Latinism](/source/Latinism), a word, idiom, or structure derived from, or suggestive of, the Latin language; an aspect of Latinisation
- [Romanization](/source/Romanization), the conversion of writing from a different writing system to the Roman (Latin) script - [Romanization of Arabic](/source/Romanization_of_Arabic) - [Romanization of Armenian](/source/Romanization_of_Armenian) - [Romanisation of Bengali](/source/Romanisation_of_Bengali) - [Romanization of Burmese](/source/Romanization_of_Burmese) - [Romanization of Chinese](/source/Romanization_of_Chinese) - [Romanization of Cyrillic](/source/Romanization_of_Cyrillic) - [Romanization of Devanagari](/source/Romanization_of_Devanagari) - [Romanization of Georgian](/source/Romanization_of_Georgian) - [Romanization of Greek](/source/Romanization_of_Greek) - [Romanization of Hindi-Urdu (Hindustani)](/source/Uddin_and_Begum_Hindustani_Romanisation) - [Romanization of Japanese](/source/Romanization_of_Japanese) - [Romanization of Khmer](/source/Romanization_of_Khmer) - [Romanization of Korean](/source/Romanization_of_Korean) - [Romanization of Lao](/source/Romanization_of_Lao) - [Romanization of Malayalam](/source/Romanization_of_Malayalam) - [Romanization of Persian](/source/Romanization_of_Persian) - [Romanisation of Sindhi](/source/Romanisation_of_Sindhi) - [Romanization of Telugu](/source/Romanization_of_Telugu) - [Romanization of Thai](/source/Romanization_of_Thai) - [Romanization of Urdu-Hindi](/source/Roman_Urdu)

- [Romanization (cultural)](/source/Romanization_(cultural)), the acculturation, integration, assimilation, of newly incorporated and peripheral populations by the Roman Republic and Roman Empire

## See also

- [Latin (disambiguation)](/source/Latin_(disambiguation))
- [List of Latinised names](/source/List_of_Latinised_names)
- [Binomial nomenclature](/source/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)](/source/Romanization_(disambiguation))
- [Transliteration](/source/Transliteration) or [transcription](/source/Transcription_(linguistics)) into the [Latin alphabet](/source/Latin_alphabet)

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