Turkish Braille (''kabartma yazı'') is the

braille Braille ( , ) is a Tactile alphabet, tactile writing system used by blindness, blind or visually impaired people. It can be read either on embossed paper or by using refreshable braille displays that connect to computers and smartphone device ...

alphabet of the

Turkish language Turkish ( , , also known as 'Turkish of Turkey') is the most widely spoken of the Turkic languages, a member of Oghuz languages, Oghuz branch with around 90 million speakers. It is the national language of Turkey and one of two official languag ...

Alphabet

Turkish Braille follows international usage. The vowels with diacritics, ''ö'' and ''ü'', have their French/German forms, whereas the consonants with diacritics, ''ç, ğ,'' and ''ş,'' have the forms of the nearest English approximations, ''ch, gh,'' and ''sh.'' Dotless ''i'' is derived by shifting down. The accent point, , is used for ''â, î, û''. Point is used for capitals.(two Turkish Braille charts)
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Punctuation

Punctuation and arithmetical signs are as follows: is perhaps related to in

Irish Braille Irish Braille is the braille alphabet of the Irish language. It is augmented by specifically Irish letters for vowels with acute accents in print: : ''é'' and ''ú'' are coincidentally the French Braille letters for ''é'' and ''ù'': They ...

, which marks a new line of verse. For quotations, the dash — is used differently from inverted commas “...”, for example when transcribing short turns in dialog.

Extensions to other languages

Azeri (Azerbaijani) Braille adds the letters ''x'' and ''q'' with their international forms and . These letters are used in Azeri Braille, or in the case of Turkish Braille, in foreign words. ''w'' is only used for foreign words in both Turkish and Azeri Braille. Azeri Braille uses the accent mark to derive print ''ə'' (formerly ''ä'') from ''a''.World Braille Usage
UNESCO, 2013

References

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