transliteration
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Etymology
Origin of transliteration
Explanation
Transliteration is the process of transferring a word from the alphabet of one language to another. Transliteration helps people pronounce words and names in foreign languages. Unlike a translation, which tells you the meaning of a word that's written in another language, a transliteration only gives you an idea of how the word is pronounced, by putting it in a familiar alphabet. It changes the letters from the word's original alphabet to similar-sounding letters in a different one. In Hebrew, the Jewish winter holiday is חנוכה. Its English transliteration is Hanukkah or Chanukah.
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Transcriber's Note: Transliteration has been added to Greek text .
From The Creed of the Old South 1865-1915 by Gildersleeve, Basil L. (Basil Lanneau)
Transliteration was done according to the Project Gutenberg Greek How-To guidelines.
From An Essay on the Scriptural Doctrine of Immortality by Challis, James
Transliteration: Hoi d' hote d� limenos polybentheos entos hikonto, Histia men steilanto, thesan d' en n�i melain�...
From Marius the Epicurean — Volume 1 by Pater, Walter
Transliteration of Oriental Alphabets adopted for the Translations of the Sacred Books of the East.
From The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Sankaracarya Sacred Books of the East, Volume 1 by Thibaut, George
Transliteration and translation accompany the reproduction in the original script.
From The Journal of Negro History, Volume 3, 1918 by Various
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