Tamil Braille is the smallest of the
Bharati braille
Bharati braille ( ), or Bharatiya Braille ( hi, भारती ब्रेल ' "Indian braille"), is a largely unified braille script for writing the languages of India. When India gained independence, eleven braille scripts were in use, in d ...
alphabets.
[UNESCO (2013]
World Braille Usage
3rd edition. (For the general system and for punctuation, see that article.)
Alphabet
Vowel letters are used rather than diacritics, and they occur after consonants in their spoken order.
The last two letters, ''ṉ'' and ''ḻ'', are shared with
Malayalam
Malayalam (; , ) is a Dravidian language spoken in the Indian state of Kerala and the union territories of Lakshadweep and Puducherry ( Mahé district) by the Malayali people. It is one of 22 scheduled languages of India. Malayalam wa ...
, but otherwise ''ṉ'' is used for the ''
anusvara
Anusvara (Sanskrit: ') is a symbol used in many Indic scripts to mark a type of nasal sound, typically transliterated . Depending on its location in the word and the language for which it is used, its exact pronunciation can vary. In the context ...
'' (nasalization) in other Bharati alphabets, while ''ḻ'' is also used in
Urdu Braille
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but for the unrelated letter ''
ʻayn
''Ayin'' (also ''ayn'' or ''ain''; transliterated ) is the sixteenth letter of the Semitic scripts, including Phoenician , Hebrew , Aramaic , Syriac ܥ, and Arabic (where it is sixteenth in abjadi order only).
The letter represents ...
''.
Codas
See also
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Tamil alphabet
The Tamil script ( , ) is an abugida script that is used by Tamils and Tamil speakers in India, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia and elsewhere to write the Tamil language. Certain minority languages such as Saurashtra, Ba ...
References
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Bharati braille alphabets
Tamil language