As a noun transliteration
is (linguistics|translation studies) the act or product of transliterating, or of representing letters or words in the characters of another alphabet or script.
As a letter x is
the twenty-fourth letter of the.
As a symbol x is
voiceless velar fricative.
transliteration
Noun
(
en noun)
(linguistics, translation studies) The act or product of transliterating, or 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.
Related terms
* transliterate
* transliterator
See also
* transcription
* romanisation
*
*
x
Translingual
{{Basic Latin character info, previous=W, next=Y, image=
(
wikipedia X)
Etymology 1
Letter
The twenty-fourth letter of the .
Symbol
(
mul-symbol)
A symbol of the IPA, representing a voiceless uvular fricative.
strike
Etymology 2
Possibly from skull and crossbones
Derived terms
* XXX
See also
{{Letter
, page=X
, NATO=X-ray
, Morse=–··–
, Character=X
, Braille=?
}}
Image:Latin X.png, Capital and lowercase versions of X , in normal and italic type
Image:Fraktur letter X.png, Uppercase and lowercase X in Fraktur
Roman numerals
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