Take the Japanese example from above, KONNICHIWA. If you are unfamiliar with the language of the word being transliterated, then it is unlikely that its transliteration will give you insight into the meaning of the word.
Overall, proper transliteration is more than just converting a character or word from one alphabet to that of another. For example, the first five Roman numerals transliterated to Japanese are as follows. Transliteration is also not just limited to letters as it can involve converting numbers. In terms of converting one writing system to that of another, romanization can be considered as a type of transliteration, but it would be best to avoid the term altogether and stick with transliteration to ensure that you are not pigeonholing yourself. However, they are not the same, since transliteration is not limited to just Roman characters. This is because romanization is the transliteration of a language that does not use Roman characters, such as Arabic, Chinese, Cyrillic, Hindi, Japanese, Korean and many others, to a language that does use Roman characters, like English, French, German and Spanish. The word transliteration is sometimes confused with romanization.
The Germanic letter Ö is interesting in that the English transliteration of the letter can be represented as either O or OE, but not because the letter phonetically matches O and OE but is instead considered equivalent to them. The letter Ö is commonly used in the names of localities and streets of countries that speak a Germanic language, such as Danish, German, Swedish and Icelandic. This is more commonly the case with diacritics (umlauts and diaeresis). In some cases, a character in one language may have an equivalent in another despite the pronunciation of the character being different.
Transliteration is not always the process of just making a phonetic conversion. France, Germany, United States of America, United Kingdom), the letter Z cannot be transliterated on its own, since there are multiple possibilities. English, French, German) and the country (e.g. In Spanish and Italian, the name is pronounced ZETA, while in Dutch, Polish, Romanian and Czech it is pronounced ZET. In most other English-speaking countries, such as Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand and the United Kingdom the name is pronounced ZED. In the United States of America, the name of the letter Z is pronounced ZEE. Transliteration is also dependent upon the country in which the language is used. Therefore, they will be transliterated differently even though the alphabet is the same. Multiple languages share the Roman alphabet, but the pronunciation of some letters will differ from language to language. Transliteration is not just dependent on phonetically matching one language’s alphabet to that of another. In English, this would be similar to the letter C sounding different for the words ‘company’ and ‘civil.’ This is because depending on the context of how the letter is used, the character on its own can have two different sounds, thus leading to different phonetic matches. Notice that the last letter in the word, は, has two possible transliterations – HA and WA. In this case, each letter from the Japanese word can be transliterated to English on its own. This conversion process is normally done by taking a letter from one alphabet and phonetically matching it to one or more characters in another alphabet.įor example, the Japanese word こんにちは will transliterate to KONNICHIWA in English. Simply put, transliteration is the process of converting a word or single character from one writing system to that of another.
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