Mongolian 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 used for the

Mongolian language Mongolian is the official language of Mongolia and both the most widely spoken and best-known member of the Mongolic language family. The number of speakers across all its dialects may be 5.2 million, including the vast majority of the residen ...

in Mongolia. 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 two additional letters for print letters found in the Mongolian Cyrillic alphabet.UNESCO (2013
World Braille Usage
3rd edition.

Alphabet

The printed Mongolian Cyrillic alphabet has all the letters of printed Russian, though some are only used in loan words, plus the letters ''ө, ү.'' The non-Russian letters ''ө, ү,'' have the forms of two obsolete letters of Russian Braille. The Mongolian vowel ''ө (ö)'' is coincidentally similar in print to the old Russian consonant ''ѳ (th)'', and it takes the latter's braille assignment, ; the Mongolian vowel ''ү (ü)'' takes the assignment of the old Russian vowel ''

yat Yat or jat (Ѣ ѣ; italics: ) is the thirty-second letter of the old Cyrillic alphabet and the Rusyn alphabet. There is also another version of yat, the iotified yat (majuscule: , minuscule: ), which is a Cyrillic character combining a ...

'', .

Punctuation

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Alphabet

Punctuation

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