Kannada Braille

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Kannada Braille
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Kannada alphabet

Kannada Braille is one of the Bharati braille alphabets, and it largely conforms to the letter values of the other Bharati alphabets. [1]

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Alphabet

The alphabet is as follows. [1] Vowel letters are used rather than diacritics, and they occur after consonants in their spoken order. For orthographic conventions, see Bharati Braille.

Bharati Braille alphabet

Bharati braille, or Bharatiya Braille, is a largely unified braille script for writing the languages of India. When India gained independence, eleven braille scripts were in use, in different parts of the country and for different languages. By 1951 a single national standard had been settled on, Bharati braille, which has since been adopted by Sri Lanka, Nepal, and Bangladesh. There are slight differences in the orthographies for Nepali in India and Nepal, and for Tamil in India and Sri Lanka. There are significant differences in Bengali Braille between India and Bangladesh, with several letters differing. Pakistan has not adopted Bharati braille, so the Urdu Braille of Pakistan is an entirely different alphabet than the Urdu Braille of India, with their commonalities largely due to their common inheritance from English or International Braille. Sinhalese Braille largely conforms to other Bharati, but differs significantly toward the end of the alphabet, and is covered in its own article.

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ISO a ā i ī u ū e ē ai o ō au
Braille Braille A1.svg Braille A.svg Braille I9.svg Braille Asterisk.svg Braille U.svg Braille U.svg Braille QuestionMark.svg Braille E5.svg Braille ST.svg Braille X.svg Braille O.svg Braille O.svg
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ISO r̥̄
Braille Braille ContractionPrefix.svg Braille R.svg Braille CapitalSign.svg Braille R.svg
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ISO k kh g gh
Braille Braille K.svg Braille DecimalPoint.svg Braille G7.svg Braille E.svg Braille O.svg
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ISO c ch j jh ñ
Braille Braille C3.svg Braille A.svg Braille J0.svg Braille QuoteClose.svg Braille Colon.svg
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ISO ṭh ḍh
Braille Braille U.svg Braille W.svg Braille E.svg Braille E.svg Braille NumberSign.svg
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ISO t th d dh n
Braille Braille T.svg Braille O.svg Braille D4.svg Braille E.svg Braille N.svg
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ISO p ph b bh m
Braille Braille P.svg Braille ExclamationPoint.svg Braille B2.svg Braille Currency.svg Braille M.svg
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ISO y r l v
Braille Braille Y.svg Braille R.svg Braille L.svg Braille CursiveSign.svg Braille V.svg
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ISO ś s h
Braille Braille SH.svg Braille AND.svg Braille S.svg Braille H8.svg

There is a single pre-formed conjunct, and two obsolete letters,

Print ಕ್ಷ
ISO kṣ
Braille Braille Q.svg Braille I.svg Braille A.svg

and several syllable codas,

Print ಕ್ ಕಂ ಕಃ
ISO Halant Anusvara Visarga
Braille Braille Accent.svg Braille Correction.svg Braille CapitalSign.svg

Punctuation

See Bharati Braille#Punctuation.

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