AniDB Definition:Romanisation: Difference between revisions

The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hepburn Hepburn] romanisation system was devised for a Japanese–English dictionary, published in 1867. Despite having no official status, variations of it are used for a vast majority of transcriptions, both inside and outside Japan. Unlike the [[Wikipedia:Rōmaji|two other main romanisation schemes]], it concentrates of representing Japanese phonology rather than the underlying spelling.