Re: Compiling a list of Semitic transliteration characters

>> I assume you mean "Romanization," when you say "transliteration."
> Well, isn't "Romanization" a special case of "transliteration"?

Sometimes a transliteration-transcription distinction is made, raising
the question of whether "transcription" is a hypernym of
"transliteration" and "non-transliterating 'transcription'" (perhaps
Wiki will help sort out usage some day, like it so often does). In any
case, if this distinction is made, a romanization is not necessarily a
transliteration (in the sense of there being a 1-to-1 mapping between
word forms in the two scripts). And if this distinction is not made,
people are likely to use the word "transcription" instead, is my impression.

Stephan
Received on Wed Sep 05 2012 - 17:00:52 CDT