Transliteration is a process of transferring similar-sounding words from one language to another. To give you an example, typing “ine amarinya bedenibi alinagerimi“ will be transliterated into “እኔ አማርኛ በደንብ አልናገርም“. Whereas, translation is a process of converting the written word from one language to another. For E.g. converting text written from Amharic to English.