Example sentences for: transliterated

How can you use “transliterated” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Though usually written in Russian like any other e , just as in English, they are pronounced like os . Sometimes in textbooks for children and beginners such es are marked in Russian with two dots over them; they are sometimes transliterated into English as os , so that occasionally you will see the spelling Gorbachov , which in my opinion is preferable.

  • Exhaust, a word much loved in auto repair shops, has become EGGZOZZ and is so transliterated into Hebrew.

  • Declaim that line of transliterated Greek, and you can listen to Homer's cunning selection of words and genitive case capture the twanging release of Ulysses' silver bow.

  • In the Romanization system I learned (and a pox on Peiking/Beijing for replacing the clear with the opaque) the two characters are transliterated as mei-kuo , disregarding the tonal diacritical marks.

  • The Chinese do not distinguish l from r in Western words or names, for example, so that these letters when transliterated may appear as either.


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