Georgian Braille is a

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 used for writing the Georgian language. The assignments of the Georgian alphabet to braille patterns is largely consistent with

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.UNESCO (2013
World Braille Usage
3rd edition.

Alphabet

The

basic braille 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 ...

range mostly conforms with international norms, with the exception of sounds which do not occur in Georgian, such as ''*f'' (reassigned in Georgian to თ ''t’''), and ''*q'', which is used for ჩ ''ch’'' rather than ყ ''q''. The assignment of to ჩ ''ch’'' is reminiscent of

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 ...

, as is one or two other letters ( for შ ''sh'' is widespread in Eastern Europe), but most of the extended-letter assignments are unique to Georgian.

Punctuation

჻ is an old

word divider In punctuation, a word divider is a glyph that separates written words. In languages which use the Latin, Cyrillic, and Arabic alphabets, as well as other scripts of Europe and West Asia, the word divider is a blank space, or ''whitespace''. ...

, no longer in use.Unicode code point U+10FB. The Unicode name is misleadingly 'paragraph separator'.

References

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