Example sentences for: transliteration

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

  • When a name is biblical and of Hebrew origin, too, Rybakin boldly goes where few lexicographers have gone before and gives the actual Hebrew (albeit in Roman transliteration).

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

  • Then another variant in transliteration is -ov/-off, -ev/-eff . The name ending in double f for what in Russian is invariably v is seldom seen nowadays; but a few decades ago or in documents or books written then you might have seen the two Soviet leaders' names transliterated Gorbacheff or Gorbachoff

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

  • 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.


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