transliteration
pronunciation
How to pronounce transliteration in British English:
UK [ˌtrænzˌlɪtə'reɪʃn]
How to pronounce transliteration in American English:
US [ˌtrænzˌlɪtə'reɪʃn]
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- Noun:
- a transcription from one alphabet to another
Word Origin
- transliteration (n.)
- "rendering of the letters of one alphabet by the equivalents of another," 1835, from trans- "across" (see trans-) + Latin littera (also litera) "letter, character" (see letter (n.)).
Example
- 1. Bulgaria 's transliteration is particularly chaotic .
- 2. The modern pinyin system of transliteration is pretty close phonetically to the original mandarin .
- 3. This decreed english transliteration changes of geographic locations , including burma becoming myanmar and the capital rangoon becoming yangon .
- 4. It should be admitted that the old , wade-giles transliteration is pretty confusing to modern readers , with its ps that sound more like bs and so on .
- 5. Coca cola did better with a transliteration that portrayed its product as " palatable and joyful " and had no connotations whatsoever of tooth decay .