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What is a Romanization?

What is a Romanization? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (usually uncountable) The act or process of putting text into the Latin (Roman) alphabet, by means such as transliteration and transcription.
  2. (countable) An instance (a string) of text transliterated or transcribed from another alphabet into the Latin alphabet.
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This changed when the reform-minded leader Kemal Mustafa Attaturk, for better or for worse, adopted a Romanization system which heavily uses umlauts to modify various sounds.
However, with the introduction of Unicode, Romanization is now becoming less necessary.
For the non-reader of Hangul, the Hangul script in each stanza represents a phonetic ideal that Romanization can reflect either better or worse but never really attain.
Such population movements contributed to the rapid Romanization and Latinization of Italy.
It would be desirable to have a system of Romanization that differentiates them in a way that is more indicative of the actual phonetic values.
Romanization was largely effective in the western half of the empire, where native civilizations were weaker.

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