Greek 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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. It is based on international braille conventions, generally corresponding to

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. In Greek, it is known as Κώδικας Μπράιγ ''Kôdikas Brég'' "Braille Code". There are actually two Greek braille alphabets, which differ in the assignment of a few letters: Modern Greek Braille used in Greece, and International Greek Braille for Greek letters or words used in mathematics or otherwise embedded in English and other languages.

Modern Greek Braille

Modern Greek Braille runs as follows:Kouroupetroglou & Phlôrias
"Ελληνικο συστημα Braille"
in ''Επιστμονικα συμβολα κατα Braille στον Ελληνικο χωρο''

Letters

Punctuation and formatting

The accent mark ( acute accent) comes before the vowel or diphthong, but after the capitalization sign: ά, Ά, αί. It is not used for diaeresis; ϊ is just .

Numbers

Digits are the same as in English Braille. Arithmetical symbols are:

International Greek Braille

International letter assignments differ somewhat from those above. In Modern Greek Braille, for example, the letter omega (ω) is written the same as Latin ''j'', whereas in English or French braille texts it is written as a ''w'', which it resembles in print. Similarly, Modern Greek upsilon is written as Latin ''y'', but in international Greek it is written as ''u'', and the letter eta is inverted. This alphabet is used, for example, in mathematical notation in an otherwise Latin-braille text. It also forms the basis for Greek letters in the

Nemeth Braille The Nemeth Braille Code for Mathematics is a Braille code for encoding mathematical and scientific notation linearly using standard six-dot Braille cells for tactile reading by the visually impaired. The code was developed by Abraham Nemeth. Th ...

and

Gardner–Salinas braille codes The Gardner–Salinas braille codes are a method of encoding mathematical and scientific notation linearly using braille cells for tactile reading by the visually impaired. The most common form of Gardner–Salinas braille is the 8-cell variety, co ...

. It is not used in Greece or Cyprus.UNESCO (2013
World Braille Usage
3rd edition. In the table below, the letters which differ from Modern Greek Braille are highlighted. The Modern Greek diphthongs are not used. In addition, there are assignments for obsolete letters used in Greek numerals:

Polytonic

International Greek braille does, however, represent the polytonic vowels of ancient forms of the language, either as a separate accent mark with the normal vowel signs, or as a single braille cell for vowel+accent. Polytonic vowels sharing a braille pattern with obsolete letters are highlighted in the table.

References

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