Words similar to transliteration

Example sentences for: transliteration

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Mahoning/Licking came to us partly as a transliteration, and partly as a translation.
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
Other continents also have names that are part transliteration, part zhōu : Europe is oūzhōu , Asia, yāzhōu , and Africa fēizhōu .
When a name is biblical and of Hebrew origin, too, Rybakin boldly goes where few lexicographers have gone before and gives the actual Hebrew (albeit in Roman transliteration).
This is clearly not a transliteration but a translation: it literally means ice island, with the second element apparently mistranslating the Icelandic name for the country, Īsland ice land as island.