Romanization is the representation in the Latin alphabet of a language normally written in another writing system. Some other meanings are as follows:

• Romanization (cultural), the expansion of Roman culture, law, and language
• Latinisation (literature), translation and adaptation of names into the Latin language
• Latinisation (USSR), the Latinization of languages inside the former USSR
• Romanization (religious), the practice of modifying other rites of the Catholic Church to more resemble the Latin (Roman) rite. The proper term is Liturgical Latinisation
• Representation in roman type of formerly italicized foreign words and phrases after they have become assimilated into English