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.

  • 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.

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

  • For a very brief discussion, see Spelling of Greek Names, which also explains that some scholars might prefer Kharybdis as a truer transliteration of the Greek."

  • 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


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