LangTime Chat, Episode 41: Romanization
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LangTime Chat
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In this episode, we begin a discussion on Romanization, talking about goals for Romanization and differences between an orthography, phonetic transcription, and Romanization. The PDF of the slides we used in the beginning of the episode is attached here. We didn’t quite make it to the “best practices” portion, so we are extending this discussion […]
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