| Bengali Braille āĻŦāĻžāĻāϞāĻž āĻŦā§āϰā§āĻāϞ Bangla Braille | |
|---|---|
| Script type | |
Print basis | Bengali alphabet |
| Languages | Bengali, |
| Related scripts | |
Parent systems | Night writing
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Bengali Braille is used for the Bengali and Assamese. According to UNESCO (2013),[1] there are slight different braille conventions for Bengali language in Bangladesh and India, this article compares Bengali Braille in the two countries.
Bengali Braille chart[edit | edit source]
Vowel Alphabets[edit | edit source]
| āĻ | āĻ | āĻ | āĻ | āĻ | āĻ | āĻ | āĻ | āĻ | āĻ | āĻ | āĻ | |
| Bangladesh | Template:Braille cell | Template:Braille cell | Template:Braille cell | Template:Braille cell | Template:Braille cell | Template:Braille cell | Template:Braille cell | Template:Braille cell | Template:Braille cell | Template:Braille cell | Template:Braille cell | -[2] |
| India | Template:Braille cell |
Consonant Alphabets[edit | edit source]
| āĻ | āĻ | āĻ | āĻ | āĻ | āĻ | āĻ | āĻ | āĻ | āĻ | |
| Bangladesh | Template:Braille cell | Template:Braille cell | Template:Braille cell | Template:Braille cell | Template:Braille cell | Template:Braille cell | Template:Braille cell | Template:Braille cell | Template:Braille cell | Template:Braille cell |
| India | Template:Braille cell | Template:Braille cell |
| āĻ | āĻ | āĻĄ | āĻĸ | āĻŖ | āϤ | āĻĨ | āĻĻ | āϧ | āύ | |
| Bangladesh & India |
Template:Braille cell | Template:Braille cell | Template:Braille cell | Template:Braille cell | Template:Braille cell | Template:Braille cell | Template:Braille cell | Template:Braille cell | Template:Braille cell | Template:Braille cell |
| āĻĒ | āĻĢ | āĻŦ | āĻ | āĻŽ | āϝ | āϰ / ā§°[3] | āϞ | ā§ą[4] | |
| Bangladesh | Template:Braille cell | Template:Braille cell | Template:Braille cell | Template:Braille cell | Template:Braille cell | Template:Braille cell | Template:Braille cell | Template:Braille cell | - |
| India | Template:Braille cell | Template:Braille cell |
| āĻļ | āώ | āϏ | āĻš | āĻā§āώ | āĻā§āĻ | āĻĄāĻŧ | āĻĸāĻŧ | āϝāĻŧ[5] | ā§ | ||
| Bangladesh | Template:Braille cell | Template:Braille cell | Template:Braille cell | Template:Braille cell | Template:Braille cell | Template:Braille cell | Template:Braille cell | Template:Braille cell | Template:Braille cell | Template:Braille cell | |
| India | Template:Braille cell | (?)[6] | |||||||||
Codas (Script modifiers)[edit | edit source]
| ā§ | āĻ | āĻ | āĻ | āĻŊ | āĨ¤ | ||||||
| Bangladesh & India |
Template:Braille cell | Template:Braille cell | Template:Braille cell | Template:Braille cell | Template:Braille cell | Template:Braille cell | |||||
Numerals[edit | edit source]
| Bengali numerals | ā§§ | ⧍ | ā§Š | ā§Ē | ā§Ģ | ā§Ŧ | ā§ | ā§Ž | ⧝ | ā§Ļ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bangladesh & India |
Template:Braille cell | Template:Braille cell | Template:Braille cell | Template:Braille cell | Template:Braille cell | Template:Braille cell | Template:Braille cell | Template:Braille cell | Template:Braille cell | Template:Braille cell |
Punctuation marks[edit | edit source]
| , | ; | : | ? | ! | - | â | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bangladesh & India |
Template:Braille cell | Template:Braille cell | Template:Braille cell | Template:Braille cell | Template:Braille cell | Template:Braille cell | Template:Braille cell |
| â ... â | [ ... ] | / | * | |
| Bangladesh & India |
Template:Braille cell | Template:Braille cell | Template:Braille cell | Template:Braille cell |
See also[edit | edit source]
References[edit | edit source]
- â World Braille Usage Archived 2014-09-08 at the Wayback Machine, UNESCO, 2013
- â The braille letter for āĻ is not attested from Bangladesh. (It is an obsolete vowel in modern Bengali language.)
- â "āϰ" for Bengali in Bangladesh and India and "ā§°" for Assamese in India only.
- â This alphabet "ā§ą" is used in Assamese in India. (Similar to the "āĻ" of Bangladesh standard.)
- â In other Bharati braille alphabets, this is transcribed as short vowel e.
- â The braille letter for ā§ is not attested from India.