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more or less letter-for-letter or sound-for-sound, from another script (e.g. the writing systems of Cyrillic, Devanagari/Hindi, Arabic, etc.). For authors writing in Latin, this change allows the name to function grammatically in a sentence through declension. Many other reasons for an author to apply this to their own name also existed, such as forming a more international identity or hiding the modest

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