Associations to the word «Transliteration»

Wiktionary

TRANSLITERATION, noun. (linguistics) (translation studies) The act or product of transliterating, or of representing letters or words in the characters of another alphabet or script.
TRANSLITERATION, noun. (sign language) The act or product of rendering speech in sign language, or vice versa.

Dictionary definition

TRANSLITERATION, noun. A transcription from one alphabet to another.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope