Romanize Any Language Without Machine Learning

An heuristic-based method exploiting Unicode tables

An heuristic-based method exploiting Unicode tables

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Romanization is the task of transforming languages and scripts into a common Latin representation.

Let’s take for example the Japanese word “アメリカ”. If you have never studied Japanese, you probably don’t know what it means. Let’s romanize it— we get: “amerika.”

Now, can you guess what “アメ…