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What does transliterate mean?

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  1. (transitive) To represent letters or words in the characters of another writing system.
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Additional transliteration macros, created by Joel Hahn, Niles Public Library District, are available for use with Connexion client to transliterate Cyrillic, Greek, and Hebrew to and from Latin script.
Basically there are two types of systems to transliterate cyrillic words and names: an international one and many different local ones.
Give us a list of all of Sofia's street signs written in Bulgarian and we will transliterate them into the Latin alphabet.
One shortcut is to use pinyin, a phonetic system used to transliterate Chinese words into the Latin alphabet.
Now I do understand it is difficult for publishers to have polytonic Greek on hand, but if that was the problem, why not just transliterate?
It named him using Arabic script, but it was difficult to transliterate it accurately in Latin script.

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