Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

national romanization

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.13 in modern English

Syllables
na-tion-al ro-man-iza-tion
IPA
31
Scrabble Score
20
Letters
6
Syllables
9
Unique Chars

Meaning

Etymology

A loose calque from Chinese 國語羅馬字/国语罗马字 (Guóyǔ Luómǎzì, literally “romanization of the national language”).

Questions

What does national romanization mean?
Gwoyeu Romatzyh.
Where does national romanization come from?
A loose calque from Chinese 國語羅馬字/国语罗马字 (Guóyǔ Luómǎzì, literally “romanization of the national language”).

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