Romanization or romanisation, in linguistics, is the conversion of text from a different writing system to the Roman (Latin) script, or a system for doing so.Methods of romanization include transliteration, for representing written text, and transcription, for representing the spoken word, and combinations of both.Transcription methods can be subdivided into phonemic …

The Hebrew language uses the Hebrew alphabet with optional vowel diacritics.The romanization of Hebrew is the use of the Latin alphabet to transliterate Hebrew words.. For example, the Hebrew name spelled יִשְׂרָאֵל ‎ ("Israel") in the Hebrew alphabet can be romanized as Yisrael or Yiśrāʼēl in the Latin alphabet.. Romanization includes any use of the Latin alphabet to ...

Romanization of Chinese (Chinese: 中文拉丁化; pinyin: zhōngwén lādīnghuà) is the use of the Latin alphabet to transliterate Chinese.Chinese uses a logographic script and its characters do not represent phonemes directly. There have been many systems using Roman characters to represent Chinese throughout history. Linguist Daniel Kane wrote, "It used to be said that …

In the modern Perso-Arabic alphabet, the short vowels /æ/, /e/ and /o/ are usually left unwritten, as is normally done in the Arabic alphabet. (See Arabic phonology § Vowels.). Historical shifts. Early New Persian inherited from Middle Persian eight vowels: three short i, a, u and five long ī, ē, ā, ō, ū (in IPA: /i a u/ and /iː eː ɑː oː uː/).It is likely that this system passed ...

The Urdu alphabet (Urdu: اردو حروفِ تہجی, romanized: urdū harūf-e-tahajjī), is the right-to-left alphabet used for Urdu.It is a modification of the Persian script, which is itself a derivative of the Arabic script.The Urdu alphabet has up to 39 or 40 distinct letters with no distinct letter cases and is typically written in the calligraphic Nastaʿlīq script, whereas Arabic is ...

Persian (/ ˈ p ɜːr ʒ ən,-ʃ ən /), also known by its endonym Farsi (فارسی, Fārsī, [fɒːɾˈsiː] ()), is a Western Iranian language belonging to the Iranian branch of the Indo-Iranian subdivision of the Indo-European languages.Persian is a pluricentric language predominantly spoken and used officially within Iran, Afghanistan, and Tajikistan in three mutually intelligible ...

Romanization Gujarati is romanized throughout Wikipedia in "standard orientalist " transcription as outlined in Masica (1991 :xv). Being "primarily a system of transliteration from the Indian scripts, [and] based in turn upon Sanskrit " (cf. IAST ), these are its salient features: subscript dots for retroflex consonants ; macrons for ...

Romanization of Greek is the transliteration (letter-mapping) or transcription (sound-mapping) of text from the Greek alphabet into the Latin alphabet History. The conventions for writing and romanizing Ancient Greek and Modern Greek differ markedly. The sound of the English letter B was written as β in ...

A common depiction of fenghuang was of it attacking snakes with its talons and its wings spread. According to the Erya's chapter 17 Shiniao, fenghuang is made up of the beak of a rooster, the face of a swallow, the forehead of a fowl, the neck of a snake, the breast of a goose, the back of a tortoise, the hindquarters of a stag and the tail of a fish.

The Azerbaijani alphabet (Azerbaijani: Azərbaycan əlifbası, آذربایجان الفباسی, Азəрбајҹан әлифбасы) has three versions which includes the Perso-Arabic, Latin, and Cyrillic alphabets.. North Azerbaijani, the official language of Republic of Azerbaijan, is written in a modified Latin alphabet.This superseded previous versions based on Cyrillic and Arabic ...