Catalan 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 disp ...
alphabet of the
Catalan language
Catalan (; autonym: , ), known in the Valencian Community and Carche as ''Valencian'' (autonym: ), is a Western Romance language. It is the official language of Andorra, and an official language of three autonomous communities in eastern ...
. It is very close to French Braille: it uses the 26 letters of the
basic braille alphabet
The goal of braille uniformity is to unify the braille alphabets of the world as much as possible, so that literacy in one braille alphabet readily transfers to another. Unification was first achieved by a convention of the ''International Congre ...
, 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'' :
:
Print digraphs are written as digraphs in braille as well.
Punctuation
The middot is used to distinguish double-el , , from the digraph , .
Formatting
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 .
References
*UNESCO (2013
World Braille Usage, 3rd edition.
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French-ordered braille alphabets
Catalan language