Musixmatch, in its Writing Guidelines, invites the users to always write lyrics in the orginal language in which they are sung and to avoid Romanization. The reason is because users are given an automatic Romanized version of the lyrics in the “translation” segment.
How can I contribute to Romanization?
At the present moment, the only ones who can change the automatic Romanization are high ranked curators. Following is a list of languages which are automatically romanized:
- Assamese
- Bengali
- Chinese
- Greek
- Gujarati
- Hindi
- Japanese
- Kannada
- Korean
- Malayalam
- Marathi
- Nepali
- Oriya
- Panjabi
- Russian
- Sanskrit
- Tamil
- Telugu
- Thai
- Urdu
Since there are over 73 million users in Musixmatch, this system promotes efficiency and keeps the app running smoothly.
