Editing Romanization of Hebrew (section)

{{Short description|Transcription of Hebrew into the Latin alphabet}}
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[[File:Ha savuja ha palestini title.gif|400px|thumbnail|Title of the romanized Hebrew newspaper ''ha Savuja ha Palestini'', shows part of the romanization method of [[Itamar Ben-Avi]]. 1929.]]
The [[Hebrew language]] uses the [[Hebrew alphabet]] with optional [[niqqud|vowel diacritics]]. The '''romanization of Hebrew''' is the use of the [[Latin alphabet]] to [[Transliteration|transliterate]] Hebrew words.
For example, the Hebrew name {{lang|he|יִשְׂרָאֵל}} ({{gloss|Israel}}) can be romanized as {{Transliteration|he|Yisrael}} or {{Transliteration|he|Yiśrāʼēl}}.

[[Romanization]] includes any use of the Latin alphabet to transliterate Hebrew words. Usually, it is to identify a Hebrew word in a non-Hebrew language that uses the Latin alphabet, such as [[German language|German]], [[Spanish language|Spanish]], [[Turkish language|Turkish]], and so on. Transliteration uses an alphabet to represent the letters and sounds of a word spelled in another alphabet, whereas [[orthographic transcription|transcription]] uses an alphabet to represent the sounds only. Romanization can refer to either.

To go the other way, that is from English to Hebrew, see [[Hebraization of English]]. Both Hebraization of English and Romanization of Hebrew are forms of transliteration. Where these are formalized these are known as ''transliteration systems'', and, where only some words, not all, are transliterated, this is known as ''transliteration policy''.