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translit

translit is the clipping of transliteration.

Meaning of transliteration

Noun

transliteration (countable and uncountable, plural transliterations)

  1. The act or product of transliterating, of representing letters or words in the characters of another alphabet or script.
    • This searching was facilitated by the author's knowledge of the vagaries of Anglo-Indian spelling and the numerous colonial-era transliteration systems used for loanwords from Indian languages.2018, James Lambert, “Anglo-Indian slang in dictionaries on historical principles”, in World Englishes, volume 37, page 251
  2. (sign language) The act or product of rendering speech in sign language, or vice versa.

Forms of translit

pluraltranslits
alternative formtranslit.

Questions about translit

What is translit the clipping of?
Translit is the clipping of transliteration.

Words near translit in the dictionary

  1. translinguality
  2. translingually
  3. translinguals
  4. translinguistic
  5. translins
  6. translit
  7. translit.
  8. transliterable
  9. transliteracies
  10. transliteracy
  11. transliteral

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Adapted from Wiktionary: translit (page history and authors); transliteration (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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