Question
For Hebrew, this method may involve replacing the guttural consonant chet (“het”) with the digraphs ch (“C-H”) or kh (“K-H”). For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this method of replacing each character in one script with a unique sequence of characters in a non-native script. The Wade–Giles system and Pinyin romanize Chinese via this method.
ANSWER: transliteration [or word forms like transliterating; prompt on text or language conversion; reject “translation”]
[10m] Two answers required. These two languages are considered by some to be the same because converting between them is accomplished by transliterating between Devanāgarī (“day-vuh-NAH-guh-ree”) and a Perso-Arabic script.
ANSWER: Hindi AND Urdu [accept in either order; prompt on Hindustani by asking “what two languages are the major registers for it?”]
[10e] Romanizations of this language, such as the transliterative Hepburn romanization, are natively called rōmaji. This language’s three scripts are kanji, hiragana, and katakana.
ANSWER: Japanese [or Nihongo]
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Data
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Exact Match? | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 PACE NSC | 06/08/2024 | Y | 37 | 18.11 | 97% | 51% | 32% |