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Example sentences for: transliteration

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Its name was first written down as betcherrygah , that being a transliteration of the Yuwaalaraay word gijirrigaa (Yuwaalaraay being a language similar to the better-known Kamilaroi), but the temptation to explain the word had triumphed over the etymologizing process as early as 1848, when the spelling budgery garr was preferred, and the first element explained as meaning in the black's language--good or handsome.
Or perhaps it was simply Russian in English transliteration rather than the Hebrew or Yiddish word borrowed from Russian.
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.
Mr. Thomas B. Lemann points out that the transliteration of the opening quotation of “Onomatoplazia” [XV, 1] contains the following errors:
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.