Czech 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

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. Like braille in other Latin-script languages, Czech Braille assigns the 25 basic Latin letters (not including "W") the same as

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's original assignments for French.

Czech Braille chart

With the exception of ''w'', Czech follows international norms for the basic letters of the alphabet. For letters with diacritics, there are two common strategies: (1) a dot 6 may be added ''(á, č, ď),'' or (2) the letter is reversed ''(ň, ó, ř, š, ť, ú, ý, ž).'' The Czech braille letter ''ř'' is the international form for ''w'', so ''w'' has been assigned an idiosyncratic form, which is the reverse of ''ů''. ''Í'' is a stretched ''i''. ''É'' and ''ě'' are not derived from ''e'', but are the reverse of each other. The numerical prefix, , derives the second options in the table (the digits, %, ‰, §). indicates a capital letter, that a word is in all caps, and indicates lower case. There are also prefixes for small and capital Greek letters, and .

Slovak Braille

Slovak Braille is similar. ''Ô'' is equivalent to Czech Braille ''ů'', and it does not have the letters ''ě'' or ''ř''. In addition, there are four letters not found in Czech Braille:Slovenská Braillova abeceda
, Únia nevidiacich a slabozrakých Slovenska

References

*Czech Republic United Organization for the Blind, 2006
''Slepecká Braillova abeceda''
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