Ukrainian Braille
Ukrainian Braille | |
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Script type | alphabet
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Print basis | Ukrainian alphabet |
Languages | Ukrainian |
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Parent systems | Braille
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Ukrainian Braille is the braille alphabet of the Ukrainian language. It is based on Russian Braille, with a few additional letters found in the print Ukrainian alphabet.
Alphabet
[edit]Ukrainian does not use all the letters of the Russian alphabet, and it has the additional letters є, ґ, і, ї.
а a | б b | в v | г h | ґ g(?) | д d | е e | є je | ж ž | з z | и y | |
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і i | ї ï | й j | к k | л l | м m | н n | о o | п p | р r | с s | |
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т t | у u | ф f | х kh | ц c | ч č | ш š | щ šč | ь ‘ | ю yu | я ya | |
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The letter ⠽ і was once found in Russian Braille, but has been dropped. ⠜ є is the mirror image of a reported archaic form of Russian э. (See obsolete letters of Russian Braille.)
⠻ g was reported in UNESCO (1990), but could not be confirmed by UNESCO (2013). It is not repeated by Leksika.com.[1]
Punctuation
[edit]This section is based on a single source which has proven to be unreliable. It needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations other than UNESCO (1990, 2013). (October 2013) |
Punctuation is from UNESCO (1990) and has not been confirmed.
Single punctuation:
, | . | ? | ! | ; | : | - | ' | |
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Paired punctuation:
« ... » | ( ... ) | |
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Formatting
[edit]italics | capital | number |
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Numbers
[edit]Numbers are the letters a–j introduced with ⠼, as in other braille alphabets.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ БРАЙЛЯ ШРИФТ, Leksika.com.ua
- UNESCO (2013) World Braille Usage, 3rd edition.
- Ukrainian Braille decoder