Catalan Braille
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Catalan Braille is the braille alphabet of the Catalan language. It is very close to French Braille: it uses the 26 letters of the basic braille alphabet, plus several additional letters for ç and what are, in print, vowel letters with diacritics; these differ from their French values only in the need to accommodate the Catalan acute accent: ú, ó, í for what are in French Braille ù, œ, ì :
Print digraphs are written as digraphs in braille as well.
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Punctuation[edit]
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| middot | , | . | ? | ! | ' | ; | - | — | ... |
The middot is used to distinguish double-el ⟨l·l⟩, ⠇⠐⠇, from the digraph ⟨ll⟩, ⠇⠇.
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Formatting[edit]
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The capital sign needs to be repeated for each letter of an initialism, so ACIC is ⠨⠁⠨⠉⠨⠊⠨⠉.
See also[edit]
- Abecedari Braille de 1931, a 1931 alphabet with different letter assignments and punctuation, including dropped digits for ordinal numbers.
- Alfabet Braille, a chart from the Associació Catalana per a la Integració del Cec with some dubious letter assignments, such as the loss of a distinct acute accent and the use of the colon for ⟨ï⟩.
References[edit]
- ^ According to Catalan Wikipedia. This is the reverse of what would be expected from international norms.
- UNESCO (2013) World Braille Usage, 3rd edition.
