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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Print basis | Bengali alphabet |
| Languages | Bengali |
| Related scripts | |
Parent systems | Night writing
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Bengali Braille chart
editVowel Alphabets
edit| অ | আ | ই | ঈ | উ | ঊ | এ | ঐ | ও | ঔ | ঋ | ঌ | |
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Consonant Alphabets
edit| ক | খ | গ | ঘ | ঙ | চ | ছ | জ | ঝ | ঞ | |
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| ট | ঠ | ড | ঢ | ণ | ত | থ | দ | ধ | ন | |
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| প | ফ | ব | ভ | ম | য | র | ল | |
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| শ | ষ | স | হ | ক্ষ | জ্ঞ | ড় | ঢ় | য়[3] | ৎ | ||
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Codas (Script modifiers)
edit| ্ | ং | ঃ | ঁ | ঽ | । | ||||||
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Numerals
edit| Bengali numerals | ১ | ২ | ৩ | ৪ | ৫ | ৬ | ৭ | ৮ | ৯ | ০ |
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Punctuation marks
edit| , | ; | : | ? | ! | – | — | |
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See also
editReferences
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.