The novelty of this system is its speed of operation, its simplicity, and its ease of use. Our examples use a Greek to Latin (English) alphabet mapping, but the Greeklish application can easily use any X to Latin mapping, where X is any non-Latin alphabet....
(Linguistics) (tr) to transcribe (a word, etc, in one alphabet) into corresponding letters of another alphabet:the Greek word λóγος can be transliterated as 'logos'. [C19: trans- +-literate, from Latinlītteraletter] ˌtransliterˈationn ...
According to Watkins, perhaps via Etruscan from Greek diphthera "tablet" (with change of d- to l- as in lachrymose), from a hypothetical root *deph- "to stamp." In this sense it replaced Old English bocstæf, literally "book staff" (compare German Buchstabe "letter, character," fro...
which characterizes the Latin, and especially the Greek, the alphabets of these languages include characters which are not represented in the Hebrew, and therefore their transliteration is attended with many complications; sometimes it is even very difficult to detect the root of the transcribed word...
language but toward a specific writing system. Therefore, transliteration is not limited by the resources of a single alphabet and may utilize special letters and diacritical marks. Transliteration is not mechanical let-ter-for-letter substitution; it takes into account the original sound of the ...
5.Transliteration is a basic method of absorbing foreign languages. There are lots of cultural factors in transliterating words. 音译是汉语吸收外来语言的最基本方法,音译词中渗透着诸多的文化因素。 6.Many shop names, written in English, are the transliterations of Somali and Arabic names. ...
Language learners may use transliteration to familiarize themselves with the pronunciation of words before tackling a new alphabet. For example, someone studying Japanese might see “ありがとう” (“thank you”) transliterated into English-friendly Latin characters as “arigatō.” This process helps ...
Please note that because English uses Latin alphabet, if you want to transliterate English text to Greek (or any other alphabet), you can use Latin to Greek (or any other alphabet) transform. Similarly, if you want to transliterate Greek to English alphabet, you can use Greek to Latin tran...
One instance of transliteration is the use of an English computer keyboard to type in a language that uses a different alphabet, such as in Russian. While the first usage of the word implies seeking the best way to render foreign words into a particular language, the typing ...
and several others that may be helpful to you. Our original transliteration font isLaserTransliterator, which allows the writing of over 130 Roman-based languages, plus transliteration of most of the world's languages. LaserTransliterator has the English alphabet plus many overstriking diacritics which...