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Base letters are as in International Braille (i.e., French Braille alphabet, as that was the first created). [1] It has the same basic letter assignments as Scandinavian Braille and is quite similar to Icelandic Braille. It also includes the Danish alphabet, e.g. X which is no longer part of the Faroese alphabet and Q, W, and Z which are used in Danish. It is however not fully consistent with Danish Braille because ý is included and ei, ey and oy have separate Braille in Faroese, but each down with the two individuals in Danish Braille.
The letters are the same as the other Nordic Braille alphabets, as they are in the printed Nordic alphabets. For example, å/á, ö/ø and ä/æ are the same letters between, say, Faroese and Swedish Braille, and the same characters between, for example, ink-printed Norwegian and Swedish (which language uses which is a matter of style). That is to say, all letter assignments in the Swedish and Icelandic Braille alphabets are the same in the Faroese one. [2]
For example, ð is the same letter in both Faroese and Icelandic ink-print characters, and their Braille alphabets. The difference in the alphabets comes only in the Faroese diphthongs (ei being 26, ey 356, oy 24 – that is to say, "ei" is represented by one dot filled in, in the second row of the first column and the third row of the second column of a Braille character). These diphthongs are considered single sounds when spelling Faroese in general, as in, it always would be spelled "ey" instead of "e-y" and the two letters cannot be separated. These assignments conveniently do not exist in the Icelandic Braille alphabet, so they distinguish Braille is Faroese and Icelandic texts. Likewise, the Icelandic letter þ (which no longer exists in Faroese) is assigned to 1246, which is a character that does not exist already in the Faroese Braille alphabet. [3]
 a |  á |  b |  d |  ð |  e |  f |  g |  h |
 i |  í |  j |  k |  l |  m |  n |  o |  ó |
 p |  q |  r |  s |  t |  u |  ú |  v |  w |
 x |  y |  ý |  z |  æ |  ø |  å | ||
 ei |  ey |  oy |
