Punjabi Braille is the
braille
Braille (Pronounced: ) is a tactile writing system used by people who are visually impaired, including people who are blind, deafblind or who have low vision. It can be read either on embossed paper or by using refreshable braille displ ...
alphabet used in India for
Punjabi
Punjabi, or Panjabi, most often refers to:
* Something of, from, or related to Punjab, a region in India and Pakistan
* Punjabi language
* Punjabi people
* Punjabi dialects and languages
Punjabi may also refer to:
* Punjabi (horse), a British Th ...
. It is one of the
Bharati braille
Bharati braille ( ), or Bharatiya Braille ( hi, भारती ब्रेल ' "Indian braille"), is a largely unified braille script for writing the languages of India. When India gained independence, eleven braille scripts were in use, in d ...
alphabets, and largely conforms to the letter values of the other Bharati alphabets.
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UNESCO, -2013
Alphabet
The alphabet is as follows.
[UNESCO (2013]
World Braille Usage
3rd edition. Vowel letters are used rather than diacritics, and they occur after consonants in their spoken order. For orthographic conventions, see
Bharati Braille
Bharati braille ( ), or Bharatiya Braille ( hi, भारती ब्रेल ' "Indian braille"), is a largely unified braille script for writing the languages of India. When India gained independence, eleven braille scripts were in use, in d ...
.
Pointing
The Bharati point, , is only used to derive one consonant, ਗ਼ ''ġa'' , from the base consonant letter ਗ ''ga'' . This system also operates in
Hindi Braille and
Indian Urdu Braille
According to UNESCO (2013),[World Braille Usage](_blank)
UNESCO, 2013 there are di ...
, but the Punjabi Braille alphabet is closer to Indian Urdu, as all other consonants that are pointed in print, such as ਖ਼ ''xa'', are rendered with dedicated letters in braille based on
international values. The six pointed letters in the Gurmukhi script have the following equivalents in braille:
Codas
Points are used for syllable codas.
Punctuation
See
Bharati Braille#Punctuation.
References
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Bharati braille alphabets
Punjabi language
Gurmukhī script