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.

  • For instance, in English the name of the Russian composer is usually spelled Tchaikovsky and sometimes as Tschaikovsky or Tschaikowsky where three or four English letters are used to represent a sound represented by a single Russian letter and more normally by only two in English, ch . The name Chaliapin was first transliterated into a French spelling Chaliapine ; later, when most of the family moved to the United States, the e was dropped to Anglicize the spelling.

  • 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.

  • 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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