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Transliteration

noun
1.
A transcription from one alphabet to another.





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"Transliteration" Quotes from Famous Books



... of transliteration for Russian names into English has hitherto existed. Each writer has been a law unto himself. Now, at last, the Liverpool School of Russian Studies has prepared and privately circulated a scheme, which deserves to be, and is likely to be, generally ...
— Plays - Complete Edition, Including the Posthumous Plays • Leo Tolstoy
... romanization of personal names in the Factbook normally follows the same transliteration system used by the US Board on Geographic Names for spelling place names. At times, however, a foreign leader expressly indicates a preference for, or the media or official documents regularly use, a romanized spelling that differs ...
— The 2000 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.


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