Latinisation

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Latinisation or latinization could refer to:

• Latinization (literature), a literary practice of writing a name in a Latin style when writing in Latin
  • List of Latinized names
• Latinization (historical) the spread of Roman culture, law, and language
• Latinisation (USSR), the campaign in the USSR during the 1920s and 1930s to replace traditional writing systems for numerous languages with the Latin alphabet
• Liturgical Latinisation, the adoption of practices from Western Christianity by the Eastern Churches
• Romanization, the representation of different writing systems in the Roman alphabet

[edit] Biology

• the giving of Greek or Latin binomial names to identified species

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