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romanization

vr.tr.romanization · ACT.ACT

Let an agent explain romanization and its methods, identify major systems by language, relay standards from ISO, national bodies and libraries, and distinguish transliteration from transcription and from Romanisation in the historical sense.

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Purpose and description

Let an agent explain romanization and its methods, identify major systems by language, relay standards from ISO, national bodies and libraries, and distinguish transliteration from transcription and from Romanisation in the historical sense.

The conversion of text from another writing system into the Latin alphabet, by transliteration that maps letters or by transcription that represents sounds, in systems such as ISO 9 and BS 2979 for Cyrillic, Hanyu Pinyin and Wade-Giles for Mandarin, Hepburn for Japanese, Revised Romanization for Korean, the Yale systems and many others; romanization is used in libraries, cartography, passports, signage and language learning, and competing systems cause inconsistency.

What it is for: Representing other scripts in Latin letters.

It can be explain methods; identify systems by language; relay standards; distinguish senses.

Distinguishing features

Transliteration versus transcription

Language-specific systems

International and national standards

Inconsistency across systems

What it looks like

Not a visible object; Latin-letter renderings of foreign words.

How it is recognised

Conversion of text into Latin script

ISO 9, Pinyin, Hepburn, Yale and others

Cyrillization converts into Cyrillic; Romanisation as cultural assimilation to Rome is a different sense

Related models

is a kind of - in registry terms

conversion of script

is a kind of - when letter-based

transliteration

is standardised by - and national bodies

ISO

is used in - and passports

library cataloguing

In practice

Families and kinds

romanization of Cyrillic: ISO 9, BS 2979, ALA-LC, national systems

romanization of Chinese: Pinyin, Wade-Giles, Yale

romanization of Japanese: Hepburn, Kunrei

romanization of Korean: Revised, McCune-Reischauer, Yale

romanization of Arabic, Hebrew, Greek and Indic scripts

specialist transcriptions such as the PDLMA system

Identifiers

ISO 9 Cyrillic

ISO 3602 Japanese

ISO 7098 Chinese

Standards and regulation

ISO transliteration standards

ICAO rules for names in machine-readable passports

UNGEGN romanization systems for geographical names

Library standards such as ALA-LC

Failure modes and hazards

Inconsistent spellings of names

Loss of information in transcription

Politicised choice of systems

Also called

BS 2979:1958 Transliteration of Cyrillic and Greek CharactersISO romanizationYale romanizationromanization of MandarinPDLMA transcriptionromanization of Cyrilliccoptic romanizationromanization of Mongolianromanization of KlingonISO 11940latinisation of namesromanization of Bengaliromanization of Tajikromanization of UkrainianCœdès transliteration of Thairomanization of Armenianromanization of Devanagariromanization of PersianRomanization of Georgianromanization of MacedonianDIN romanisationRomanisation of Assameseromanization of Laoromanization of Greekinformal romanizations of CyrillicPaiboon romanisationMozhiromanization of Koreanromanization of Burmeseromanization of Khmerromanization of Malayalamromanization of Maldivianromanization of SerbianSemitic romanizationWenzhounese romanisationJSL romanizationYale romanization of KoreanYale romanization of MandarinYale romanization of Cantoneseromanization of Lemko

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Where this came from

wikidata · CC0 1.0

Source repository Registry entry point

Drafted structure

Bundle to layer to finding to question, as the second pass will find it: 4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions.

Understand What romanization is.

Definition.

Definition

Definition and methods.

Definition

Definition.

  1. What is romanization, and how do transliteration and transcription differ? definition
  2. Is the question about script conversion or historical Romanisation? boundary

Systems

Systems by language.

Systems

Systems.

  1. What are the major romanization systems for Cyrillic, Chinese, Japanese, Korean and other scripts? definition
  2. Which entry fits the specific system? action
Apply Standards and use.

Regulation.

Standards

Standards.

Standards

Standards.

  1. What do ISO, UNGEGN, ICAO and library standards specify? provenance
  2. Which references are standard? provenance

Practice

Practice.

Practice

Practice.

  1. How is romanization applied in passports, maps, catalogues and signage? provenance
  2. Which entry fits the specific application? action
Issues Issues and debates.

Attribution.

Inconsistency

Inconsistency.

Inconsistency

Inconsistency.

  1. Why do names appear in different spellings, and how is this managed? provenance
  2. Which sources are cited? provenance

Politics

Politics of systems.

Politics

Politics.

  1. What debates surround the choice of systems, such as Pinyin adoption or Ukrainian romanization, with positions attributed? provenance
  2. Is the presentation neutral? boundary
Context History and tools.

Context.

History

History.

History

History.

  1. How did romanization systems develop from missionary and scholarly schemes to national standards? provenance
  2. Which entry fits the history of writing systems? action

Tools

Tools.

Tools

Tools.

  1. What software and input methods perform romanization? provenance
  2. Which entry fits input method? action

What the second pass must settle

  • Should romanization of each language be a separate entry?
  • How should standards be linked?
  • The registry entry has merged aliases naming specific standards and systems; should they be split off?
Draft as JSON