Their texts aimed to produce a phonetic transliteration of the dialect, using the main languages of the day. 他们的文本旨在使用当时的主要语言对该方言进行音译。
Transliteration helps people speak a language by showing the pronunciation in the language they understand. 音译通过使用人们已掌握的语言的发音来帮助他们学说另一种语言。
See: transliterate