Example sentences for: transliterated

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

  • Then another variant in transliteration is -ov/-off, -ev/-eff . The name ending in double f for what in Russian is invariably v is seldom seen nowadays; but a few decades ago or in documents or books written then you might have seen the two Soviet leaders' names transliterated Gorbacheff or Gorbachoff

  • 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.

  • The entry for the Russian word in the Tolkovyi Slovar' Russkogo Yazyka (Moscow, 1935), reads as follows, as transliterated and translated:

  • But since different individuals have different ideas about how the Devanagari and Arabic alphabets should be transliterated, in many cases there is no single “correct” way to spell a specific word and, instead, dictionaries offer several--sometimes as many as six--acceptable variant spellings.

  • 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.


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