Moreover, the pronunciation of the consonants resembled that of the Hebrew consonants, the transliteration of which has long since become conventional.
This is what Professor Maspero has done, and it must be no slight satisfaction to him to find that on the whole his system of transliteration is confirmed by the cuneiform tablets of Tel el-Amarna.
When, therefore, an Assyrian or Babylonian name is written phonetically, its correct transliteration is not often a matter of question.
Another noticeable default in the same category is that, like Sale, Mr. Wherry frequently omits the terminal h' in his transliteration of Arabic.
Bowring, showed me a book which he had brought from Japan, and which contained a Chinese vocabulary with Sanskrit equivalents and a transliteration in Japanese.
The same words occurring in the same line are written differently, and the Japanese transliteration simply repeats the blunders of the Sanskrit transcript.
In reading Arabic from transliteration for the purpose of scanning poetry, we have therefore in the first instance to keep in mind that no Arabic word or syllable can begin with a vowel.
The author provided a transliteration of most of the Hebrew words and phrases; however a separate transliteration has been included here based on the scheme provided by the Society of Biblical Literature.
A transliteration alphabet, for explaining the signs employed,” would be a good precursor to yours and Lepsius’ scientific work.
My summary of the Semitic alphabet (lithographed) gives the summary of the system of transliteration used in this work, and is also in the press.
And now, last but not least, pray send me a transliteration table, in usum Delphini.
The system of transliteration to be used in all Bahá’í references.
If roman minuscules are used throughout, or roman for the text and italic for the imprint of colophon, the method of transliteration which the printer himself would have used should be adopted.
The method of transliteration did not always work to advantage, as we shall see, but it was intended throughout to save the Book from taking sides on any question where honest men might differ as to the meaning of words.
The King James translators follow that same practice of transliteration rather than translation with another word which is full of controversial.
On some mooted words they did not try translation, but transliteration instead.
On the other hand, disputes since their day have shown how they translated when transliteration would have been wiser.
Possibly the Tibetan is in this case the transliteration of a Mo-so word.
Personal Names - Spelling: The romanization of personal names in the Factbook normally follows the same transliteration system used by the US Board on Geographic Names for spelling place names.
At times, however, a foreign leader expressly indicates a preference for, or the media or official documents regularly use, a romanized spelling that differs from the transliteration derived from the US Government standard.
The following is thetransliteration and translation of the transcription on page 105.
Aramaic endorsements on business documents repeating in Aramaic transliteration the names of parties mentioned in the texts have also been of service in fixing the phonetic readings of names.
When transliterating a multi word phrase, thetransliteration is done using the Hebrew word ordering of right to left.
In the transliteration of proper names I have not followed consistently any one method, but for each individual name have made what seemed to be the best selection from the various possible spellings.
Until transliteration from the Slavic languages has become standardized this, I am sure, is permissible and even advisable.
But this our purpose is a tweluemonth old, And bootlesse 'tis to tell you we will go: Therefore we meete not now.
At all events the rules of transliteration are entirely satisfied, and this can hardly be said of the other derivations which come into competition with it.
In the transliteration of the LXX the ז is persistently represented by ζ, and the צ by ς.
Langdon's text and transliterationof the first word do not tally.
The transliteration and the translation of the two tablets represent the joint work of the two authors.
Langdon furnished a transliteration and translation with some notes and a brief introduction.
The phonetic writing is, therefore, a warning against any endeavor to read the name by an Akkadian transliteration of the signs.
In transliterating these tarsila that pronunciation which seemed consistent and characteristic of each tarsila was adopted in the transliteration of the same.
As you see, therefore, it is a highly recommendable system of transliteration and this is why the Guardian is so emphatic about its univeral adoption by the Bahá’ís the world over.
This gave a full transliteration and translation of one hundred and eleven texts published in autography.
He gave, in transliteration and translation, the texts of thirty-one tablets of this period.
In this transliteration ch retains its ordinary English sound.
