Talk:Transliteration

Deletion of old article

Previously

Transliteration is the process of converting names and other words into another alphabet, without any attempt at translation.

The Japanese language has transliterated many English loan words:

• apartment => アパート (a-pa-a-to)
• Pocket Monsters => ポケモン (po-ke-mo-n) See: Pokémon

Some transliterations hardly change the pronunciation at all:

• radio => ラジオ (ra-ji-o) (RAH DEE OH)

PROBLEM

This is not transliteration. This is phonic adoption. See article for actual definition. Your last example was:

radio => ラジオ (ra-ji-o) (RAH DEE OH)

Again, this is phonetic adaptation. Japanese does not reproduce the English spelling radio. It represents an approximation of its pronunciation using katakana.