Multiple alphabets at a glance using coloured letters for similar sounds

Radio in Multiple Scripts

Word radio transliterated

See at a glance how the sounds for r, a, d, i in the word ‘radio’ are written in various scripts. r = blue a = yellow d = red i = green o = orange

Latin (English): radio

Cyrillic (Russian): радио

Arabic: راديو

Hebrew: ראדיו

Georgian:

Armenian: ռադիո

Greek: ραδιο

Note that in Arabic it sounds more like ‘radiu’. For the following writing systems it is not as easily transliterated at a one on one letter base, as is often the case with abugida’s and syllabaries.

Devanagari (Hindi): ियो(re-ḍi-yo) र = r, े = e, ड = ḍ, ि = i, य = y, ो = o

Tamil: ரேடியோ(rē-ṭi-yō) ரே = rē, டி = ṭi, யோ = yō

Japanese Katakana: (ra-ji-o = “radio”)

Korean Hangul: (ra-di-o)