Transliteration

Definition

transliterate /træns'lÇtǝreÇt/ v ~ sth (into / as sth) ဘာသာစကား တစ္ခုကို အျခားဘာသာအကၡရာျဖင့္ ဖလွယ္သည္။ အကၡရာ ဖလွယ္သည္။ transliterate Greek place-names (into the Roman alphabet). transliteration /træns ' lÇtǝ'reÇʃn/ n [C,U] အကၡရာ ဖလွယ္မႈ။

Examples

1. ‘He is known by several different variants of his name
2. which has been transliterated as Kusyan
3. Kushiyad
4. Koshar
5. Kusiar or Kossar.’
6. ‘Give us a list of all of Sofia's street signs written in Bulgarian and we will transliterate them into the Latin alphabet.’
7. ‘He says they are called tien-hsin but that this is now transliterated as dim sum.’
8. ‘Many of the names
9. transliterated phonetically from Arabic
10. are not well-known or are difficult to identify from the information given.’
11. ‘In the others
12. the Japanese words are simply transliterated into English characters
13. which is still incomprehensible to the average viewer.’
14. ‘Technical terms are defined (both in the text and in the glossary)
15. and all foreign language words presented in the body of the text are transliterated for easy access by the beginning student.’
16. ‘The Arabic can be transliterated into the Roman alphabet like this.’
17. ‘Technical terms have been explained and the Greek has been transliterated into English characters.’
18. ‘In Kodokan documents it is usually transliterated Yoshiaki
19. but his passport in 1903 read Yoshitsugu.’
20. ‘Now I do understand it is difficult for publishers to have polytonic Greek on hand
21. but if that was the problem
22. why not just transliterate?’
23. ‘The Russian ending of his name can be transliterated as ij
24. ii
25. or iy; these rules are often abandoned in favor of forms that have become commonly accepted.’
26. ‘The phonetics and pronunciation of Arabic names
27. almost alien to English when transliterated
28. were confusing and
29. at times
30. inaccurate.’
31. ‘Other inscriptions discovered are Sanskrit mantras transliterated in Tulu script.’
32. ‘Vernacular and academic orthography are therefore often sharply contrasted
33. the latter having strict conventions for transliterating Arabic into Roman script.’
34. ‘‘But when the Hindi captions are only transliterated instead of being translated
35. they seem to have very little impact especially in the southern belt
36. ’ he observes.’
37. ‘The obscurity about the major ethnie of Dark Age Scotland was more to do with the fact that the eloquence of their complex sculptured stones was not transliterated into Roman script.’
38. ‘There is also English in modern Hebrew; the word ‘university’ for example is transliterated in Hebrew text.’
39. ‘Onomatopoeia - transliterated by the Greeks.’
40. ‘Names from languages written with different alphabet characters
41. such as Cyrillic
42. Hebrew
43. and Greek
44. are transliterated with Roman characters.’
45. ‘A few of the authors transliterated carelessly
46. even incorrectly
47. into a sort of pidgin German.’