Turkish Braille

Turkish Braille
Type alphabet
Languages Turkish
Parent systems
Braille

Turkish Braille (kabartma yazı) is the braille alphabet of the Turkish language.

Braille chart

Turkish Braille follows international usage. The vowels with diacritics, ö and ü, have their French/German forms, whereas the consonants with diacritics, ç, ğ, and ş, have the forms of the nearest English approximations, ch, gh, and sh. Dotless i is indicated by shifting down.[1][2]

⠁ (braille pattern dots-1)
a
⠃ (braille pattern dots-12)
b
⠉ (braille pattern dots-14)
c
⠡ (braille pattern dots-16)
ç
⠙ (braille pattern dots-145)
d
⠑ (braille pattern dots-15)
e
⠋ (braille pattern dots-124)
f
⠛ (braille pattern dots-1245)
g
⠣ (braille pattern dots-126)
ğ
⠓ (braille pattern dots-125)
h
⠔ (braille pattern dots-35)
ı
⠊ (braille pattern dots-24)
i
⠚ (braille pattern dots-245)
j
⠅ (braille pattern dots-13)
k
⠇ (braille pattern dots-123)
l
⠍ (braille pattern dots-134)
m
⠝ (braille pattern dots-1345)
n
⠕ (braille pattern dots-135)
o
⠪ (braille pattern dots-246)
ö
⠏ (braille pattern dots-1234)
p
⠗ (braille pattern dots-1235)
r
⠎ (braille pattern dots-234)
s
⠩ (braille pattern dots-146)
ş
⠞ (braille pattern dots-2345)
t
⠥ (braille pattern dots-136)
u
⠳ (braille pattern dots-1256)
ü
⠧ (braille pattern dots-1236)
v
⠽ (braille pattern dots-13456)
y
⠵ (braille pattern dots-1356)
z
⠀ (braille pattern blank)
 

Basic punctuation is like that of English Braille.

A 1990 Unesco report got ş wrong, and has the additional letters â, î, and û.[3]

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References

  1. ^ Beysehir Guidance and Research Centre
  2. ^ [1]
  3. ^ [2]


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Last modified on 22 March 2013, at 14:02