romanises
Transliterates to Latin
Romanises is the British spelling of romanizes—converts text from another writing system into the Roman alphabet.
Chinese, Arabic, Japanese, and other scripts can be romanised for readers who don't know the original characters: The system romanises Mandarin words so English speakers can pronounce them.
Also spelled romanizes.
Written version of speech
- conversionAct of changing states
- alphabetLanguage's letter system
- scriptWritten words for performance
- phoneticsStudy of speech sounds
orthography · katakana · hiragana · pinyin · syllabary · graphemes · phonemic · latinization
Adapting for specific markets
- standardizationImplementing uniform technical specifications
- modificationAct of altering something
- conversionAct of changing states
- integrationCombining into a whole
customization · westernization · globalization · internationalization · formatting · encoding · ASCII · digitization
transcription
Written version of speech
- conversionAct of changing states
- alphabetLanguage's letter system
- scriptWritten words for performance
phonetics · orthography · katakana · hiragana · pinyin · syllabary · graphemes · phonemic · latinization · transliterates
localization
Adapting for specific markets
- standardizationImplementing uniform technical specifications
- modificationAct of altering something
- conversionAct of changing states
integration · customization · westernization · globalization · internationalization · formatting · encoding · ASCII · digitization · compatibility