Example sentences for: transliteration

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

  • 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.

  • Mahoning/Licking came to us partly as a transliteration, and partly as a translation.

  • Such variations in transliteration are practically endless, and hardly any variation can be called an error, though consistency is obviously desirable.

  • In baseball, the transliteration is equivalent to sutoraiku ; in labor relations (an earlier borrowing) to sutoraiki .

  • In the names of America and England the second element is not part of the transliteration but the Chinese word for, respectively, continent and country.


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