non-Roman

Like Greek letters

Non-Roman describes anything outside the sphere of ancient Rome or its empire—non-Roman peoples, non-Roman territories.

It also applies to typography: non-Roman scripts include Arabic, Chinese, and Cyrillic, while non-Roman typefaces are those that aren't in the standard upright style (as opposed to italic).

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scripts

alphabet

Language's letter system

Arabic · Greek · Hebrew · Hangul · hiragana · katakana · Tamil · Thai · Bengali · Amharic

empire

Byzantine

Of Constantinople's civilization

decline · fall · barbarian · Germanic · Visigoth · Ostrogoth · successor · legacy · Romulus · Justinian

typography

font

Character style set

transliteration · encoding · rendering · kerning · ligature · calligraphy · letterform · typography · text · display

identity

foreign

From another nation

provincial · ethnic · colonial · native · other · alien · exotic · peripheral · conquered · subject

Opposites
script/alphabet type

non-RomanRoman

Of ancient Italy's capital

Latin · Roman alphabet · Latin alphabet · Latin script · Roman Empire

cultural/historical origin

non-RomanRoman

Of ancient Italy's capital

Latin · Greco-Roman · Roman Empire · Italian · Mediterranean

Family

non, Roman, Rome, Romans, Romance, Romanesque, Romanize, Romanization, romanticize

Familiarity
Top 500,000
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