Example sentences for: transliteration

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

  • 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.

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

  • This literally means seatide fresh, not inappropriately, but is actually a transliteration of Korean chosön , which means land of the morning.

  • 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.

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


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