Transliteration's the practice of converting a text from one writing system into another in a systematic way. Definitions From an information-theoretical point of view, transliteration's a mapping from one system of writing into another, word by word, or ideally letter by letter. Transliteration attempts to be exact, so that an informed reader should be able to reconstruct the original spelling of unknown transliterated words. To achieve this objective, transliteration may define complex conven… (More on Transliteration)