Bulgarian Braille is a

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alphabet for writing the

Bulgarian language Bulgarian (; , ) is an Eastern South Slavic, Eastern South Slavic language spoken in Southeast Europe, primarily in Bulgaria. It is the language of the Bulgarians. Along with the closely related Macedonian language (collectively forming the ...

. It is based on the unified international braille conventions, with braille letters approximating their

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, and the same punctuation, with the French question mark. In Bulgarian, it is known as Брайлова азбука (''Brailova azbuka'') "braille alphabet".

Alphabet

Bulgarian is nearly identical to

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 alphabets, Cyrillic in print, such as Ukrainian language, Ukrainian and Mon ...

where they overlap. Bulgarian lacks a few Russian letters, and has the additional letter '' ѝ'', which takes the place of Russian '' й'' (with Bulgarian ''й'' being the mirror image of that).

Alphabet

Punctuation

Formatting

References