Bengali Braille is used for the Bengali language. According to UNESCO (2013),[1] there are slight different braille conventions for Bengali language in India, where the generic Bharati Braille is followed, and in Bangladesh. This article compares Bengali Braille in the two countries.
Bengali Braille বাংলা ব্রেইল Bangla Breil | |
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Script type | |
Print basis | Bengali alphabet |
Languages | Bengali |
Related scripts | |
Parent systems | Night writing
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Bengali Braille chart edit
Vowel Alphabets edit
অ | আ | ই | ঈ | উ | ঊ | এ | ঐ | ও | ঔ | ঋ | ঌ | |
Bangladesh | -[2] | |||||||||||
India |
Consonant Alphabets edit
ক | খ | গ | ঘ | ঙ | চ | ছ | জ | ঝ | ঞ | |
Bangladesh | ||||||||||
India |
ট | ঠ | ড | ঢ | ণ | ত | থ | দ | ধ | ন | |
Bangladesh & India |
প | ফ | ব | ভ | ম | য | র | ল | |
Bangladesh | ||||||||
India |
শ | ষ | স | হ | ক্ষ | জ্ঞ | ড় | ঢ় | য়[3] | ৎ | ||
Bangladesh | |||||||||||
India | (?)[4] |
Codas (Script modifiers) edit
্ | ং | ঃ | ঁ | ঽ | । | ||||||
Bangladesh & India |
Numerals edit
Bengali numerals | ১ | ২ | ৩ | ৪ | ৫ | ৬ | ৭ | ৮ | ৯ | ০ |
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Bangladesh & India |
Punctuation marks edit
, | ; | : | ? | ! | – | — | |
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Bangladesh & India |
‘ ... ’ | [ ... ] | / | * | |
Bangladesh & India |
... | ... |
See also edit
References edit
- ^ World Braille Usage Archived 2014-09-08 at the Wayback Machine, UNESCO, 2013
- ^ The braille letter for ঌ is not attested from Bangladesh. (It is an obsolete vowel in modern Bengali language.)
- ^ In other Bharati braille alphabets, this is transcribed as short vowel e.
- ^ The braille letter for ৎ is not attested from India.