Example sentences for: transliterations

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

  • Many Hindi loanwords are simply transliterations of the Hindi originals.

  • They are Chinese transliterations of those names, rather than translations, and strictly speaking in the Romanization system known as Pinyin should be written with tone signs and without capitals, since Chinese has pictographs, not letters as we understand them.

  • and Khrushcheff or Khrushchoff . I have seen both the -ov and - off transliterations on the same page of a book.

  • (I give three versions of Modern Chinese though there are at least four or five transliterations currently in use.)

  • The transliterations themselves, as instanced above, may at first seem strange.


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