Navajo 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

Navajo language Navajo or Navaho (; Navajo: or ) is a Southern Athabaskan language of the Na-Dené family, through which it is related to languages spoken across the western areas of North America. Navajo is spoken primarily in the Southwestern United Stat ...

. It uses a subset of the letters of

Unified English Braille Unified English Braille Code (UEBC, formerly UBC, now usually simply UEB) is an English language Braille code standard, developed to permit representing the wide variety of literary and technical material in use in the English-speaking world today ...

, along with the punctuation and formatting of that standard. There are no contractions. Additional letters, beyond those of English braille, are for ł, for ' (glottal stop and ejective consonants), the French vowels with grave accents for the Navajo vowels with acute accents (high tone), and for ogonek on the following vowel (nasal vowels, e.g. for ą, for ą́). is only used for the digit 6, as the letter 'f' does not exist in the Navajo alphabet. In numerical order by decade, the letters are: The alphabet was created by Carol Begay Green and adopted by the Navajo Nation in 2015.

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