Example sentences for: transliteration

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

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

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

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

  • Thank you ever so much for having communicated a reader's objection to my transliteration of tadachi with two is . It was indeed a mistake.

  • 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.


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