Transliteration (Noun)
Meaning
A transcription from one alphabet to another.
Classification
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents.
Examples
- The company provided a transliteration of the ancient text from Greek to Latin to make it more accessible to scholars.
- The language learner found it helpful to see the transliteration of the Chinese characters into the Roman alphabet to aid in her pronunciation.
- The dictionary included a transliteration of the Arabic words into English letters to assist in their pronunciation.
- The transliteration from Cyrillic to Latin allowed the researcher to easily compare the Russian text to the English translation.
- The linguist created a transliteration of the Sanskrit text into the Devanagari script to study its grammar and syntax.