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I'm trying to name a question of mine:
And instead of naming it: I'm translating English to Hindi, what's it called when the translations are with English characters?
I can name it something like: I'm translating English to Hindi, what's it called when Non-English Character'd translations are with English characters?
Catch my drift?
You are looking for an accepted, known term for a non-English charactered language or text. It is common to qualify such a thing as non-Latin script. For example:
Hindi is a non-Latin script language.
The letter was written in a non-Latin script.
You can find more examples by Googling [ non-Latin script ].
So your corrected question might read:
What’s it called when a translation to a non-Latin script language (or text) uses Latin characters?
(Incidentally, the term for representing a non-Latin script language with Latin characters is “romanization”, or alternatively “latinization”.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_writing_system
Given that there are so many types of scripts, I doubt there is a real word for "Non-Latin script" other than that. So your question might better be phrased "I'm translating English to Hindi; what's it called when Latin script is borrowed into a different script?" or "what's it called when non-Latin scripts use Latin characters?" By the way the "English characters" are known as "Latin characters."
