Example sentences for: transliteration

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

  • Mr. Thomas B. Lemann points out that the transliteration of the opening quotation of “Onomatoplazia” [XV, 1] contains the following errors:

  • When we quote from a source document, we use its transliteration, e.g.,"al Qida" instead of al Qaeda.

  • Other continents also have names that are part transliteration, part zhōu : Europe is oūzhōu , Asia, yāzhōu , and Africa fēizhōu .

  • For a very brief discussion, see Spelling of Greek Names, which also explains that some scholars might prefer Kharybdis as a truer transliteration of the Greek."

  • The orthography used here for the Serbian slang-words is not a standardized transliteration of today's Serbian Cyrillics, and not an official Latin spelling--which would be Croatian, and therefore taboo.


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