transliteration

IPA: trænsɫɪtɝˈeɪʃʌn

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

Examples of "transliteration" in Sentences

(The Spanish transliteration is in one of the posts above).
“Yi” is a transliteration from the Chinese using a system called “Pinyin.”
Perhaps U.K. to U.S. English transliteration is to accommodate the perceived audience for the book.
Every intellectually rigorous teacher of Kabbalah whom I know of spells the word, in English transliteration, "Kabbalah."
Hint, in English transliteration of Arabic, K and G are often interchanged; second hint — what does “Gamal” mean in Hebrew?
As a side note, the word "Satan" isn't a name, it is a transliteration of the Hebrew word "Ha'Satan" meaning, "the accuser, or the adversary".
According to the latter work, Job had two wives, the first of whom was named Uzit (in Greek transliteration: Sitidos), after the land of Uz where Job and his wife lived, and who, according to the appendix to the Septuagint, was an Arab woman.
In Japanese it is merely a transliteration of the English word, not a translation, and I have never seen the Fairtrade mark appearing on Japanese products, so I must say I am a bit skeptical of these numbers, even though the survey was conducted by the reputable firm Macromill Inc.