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Third Person
transliterates
Present Participle
transliterating
Past Tense
transliterated
Past Participle
transliterated
1
to transform words from one writing system to another
- She had to transliterate her name from Cyrillic to Latin script for official documents.
- As part of language lessons, students were required to transliterate common phrases from Arabic to English.
- The computer program can automatically transliterate characters from Japanese to Romanized script.
- In his travel journal, Mark had to transliterate local street names to assist fellow travelers using different writing systems.
- Linguists often transliterate ancient texts, making them accessible to readers unfamiliar with the original script.
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