What is it called when you take a language and spell the word out according to sound?

Question

For example in russian hello would be -**** that is russian language but for you we write "pevet". they do this on the internet a lot and in various language. But wat is the official term.
*Dont let this throw off but my mother told me its called transleet. So i looked it online and it didn't match.*P.S. she's russian*

Answer 1

Transliteration

Does phonetics make sense here? She's writing a Russian word in the Latin alphabet. That's transliteration.

Answer 2

I assume you mean English? Some languages, like Hawai'ian, they do. That's a phonetic language. Most Latin languages are too. Except for French. English is a Germanic Language & influence by French. So, we not only have non phonic words, we have words that are spelled differently (there, their, they're) depending upon what is meant by the speaker. Then we have spelling rules, like i before e, except after c. Then, there's pronunciation, which leads us to understanding the spoken word - our brain. The English language has changed, from Old English to Middle English to Modern English. Most of us would not recognize Old or Middle English. If you're in college, I'd suggest that you enroll into a dumb bell English course. Not because your dumb, but because English is complicated & it helps to refresh our knowledge. I've taken it numerous times, myself.

Answer 3

Transliteration is the practice of transcribing a word or text written in one writing system into another writing system.

Phonetic transcription (or phonetic notation) is the visual system of symbolization of the sounds occurring in spoken human language.

What you are looking for is transliteration. It occurs when you write Japanese, Arabic, Russian... words using the Latin alphabet, in the same way you would write that word if it were an English word, according to its sound.

A phonetic transcription is what you see next to the words in a dictionary to show you how to pronounce them.

Answer 4

either transliterating or spelling phonetically.

transliteration is when you spell a word of one language with the writing system of another language. like... spelling a word written in cyrillic using the latin alphabet.

to say you're spelling something phonetically more or less means the same thing. however, i believe it's used more within one language. for instance, if i were to spell 'cough' phonetically, it'd come out as 'coff' or something like that ;P

Answer 5

Phonetically

Answer 6

Spelling out a words according to how it sounds is called phonetics.

Answer 7

The official term is Phonetics:
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/phonetics

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Phonics

Answer 9

Transcription

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