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transliteration

NOUN
  1. a transcription from one alphabet to another

How To Use transliteration In A Sentence

  • That's the transliteration of the Cyrillic text, by the way.
  • Editor's note: the transliteration provided by the author is in accordance with the Michigan-Claremont Encoding System for ASCII
  • The Greek word πραιτωριον or praetorion is a Greek transliteration of the Roman word praetorium, the headquarters of any garrison or, more specifically, the Praetorian or Palace Guard of the Emperor. Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
  • In the Russian transliteration, the vowel y is a high back unrounded vowel (not found in English); it's not like English y.
  • The name Sekem is a transliteration of an ancient hieroglyph meaning ‘vitality from the sun.’
  • Grammar is illustrated by a wealth of examples, presented in unpointed Arabic script, in a formal transliteration (i.e. with i'rab transliterated) and in translation (sometimes two where the idiom differs vastly between English and Arabic).
  • I don't know why my parents chose two different transliterations for "Yong", but if they had not, Richard and I would be completely indistinguishable ( "Tsien RY") in bibliographical databases. Roger Y. Tsien - Autobiography
  • A more accurate transliteration of Marshallese might have forgone the b for a p, or spelled the word as the Marshallese do: Pikinni. The English Is Coming!
  • Chang's approach to the translation of personal names is one that may arouse objection: she decided against the transliteration in favor of semantic translation of all personal names.
  • [Greek letter: digamma] _digamma_ quotiens ab [Greek: r] incipit dictio quae solet aspirari, ut [Greek transliteration: raetor], [Greek transliteration: braetor] dicunt, quod _digamma_ nisi vocali praeponi et in principio syllabae non potest. The Roman Pronunciation of Latin Why we use it and how to use it
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