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Belarusian Braille is the
braille Braille (Pronounced: ) is a tactile writing system used by people who are visually impaired, including people who are Blindness, blind, Deafblindness, deafblind or who have low vision. It can be read either on Paper embossing, embossed paper ...
alphabet of the
Belarusian language Belarusian ( be, беларуская мова, biełaruskaja mova, link=no, ) is an East Slavic language. It is the native language of many Belarusians and one of the two official state languages in Belarus. Additionally, it is spoken in some p ...
. It is based on
Russian Braille Russian Braille is the braille alphabet of the Russian language. With suitable extensions, it is used for languages of neighboring countries that are written in Cyrillic in print, such as Ukrainian and Mongolian. It is based on the Latin trans ...
, with a couple additional letters found in the print
Belarusian alphabet The Belarusian alphabet is based on the Cyrillic script and is derived from the alphabet of Old Church Slavonic. It has existed in its modern form since 1918 and has 32 letters. See also Belarusian Latin alphabet and Belarusian Arabic alphabet ...
.


Alphabet

Belarusian does not use all the letters of the Russian alphabet, and it has the additional letters ''і'' and ''ў''. The letters ''і'' and ''ў'' are the mirror images of ''й'' and ''у'', and the ''і'' was once found in Russian Braille. (See obsolete letters of Russian Braille.)


Punctuation

Single punctuation: Paired punctuation:


Formatting


See also

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Ukrainian Braille Ukrainian Braille is the braille alphabet of the Ukrainian language. It is based on Russian Braille, with a few additional letters found in the print Ukrainian alphabet. Alphabet Ukrainian does not use all the letters of the Russian alphabet, ...


References

* UNESCO (2013
World Braille Usage
, 3rd edition. French-ordered braille alphabets Belarusian language {{Writingsystem-stub