Catalan Braille

Catalan Braille is the braille alphabet of the Catalan language.

Catalan Braille
Script type	alphabet
Print basis	Catalan alphabet
Languages	Catalan
Related scripts
Parent systems	Braille French Braille Catalan Braille

It is very close to French Braille: it uses the 26 letters of the basic braille alphabet, plus several additional letters for ç and what are, in print, vowel letters with diacritics; these differ from their French values only in the need to accommodate the Catalan acute accent: ú, ó, í for what are in French Braille ù, œ, ì :

ç

à

é

è

í

ï

ó

ò

ú

ü

Print digraphs are written as digraphs in braille as well.

Punctuation

middot	,	.	?	!	'	;	-	—	...

The middot is used to distinguish double-el ⟨l·l⟩, ⠇⠐⠇, from the digraph ⟨ll⟩, ⠇⠇.

...	...
" ... "	( ... )

Formatting

(digit)	(caps)

The capital sign needs to be repeated for each letter of an initialism, so ACIC is ⠨⠁⠨⠉⠨⠊⠨⠉.

See also

• Abecedari Braille de 1931, a 1931 alphabet with different letter assignments and punctuation, including dropped digits for ordinal numbers.
• Alfabet Braille, a chart from the Associació Catalana per a la Integració del Cec with some dubious letter assignments, such as the loss of a distinct acute accent and the use of the colon for ⟨ï⟩.

References

• UNESCO (2013) World Braille Usage Archived 2014-09-08 at the Wayback Machine, 3rd edition.