Kazakh Braille

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Kazakh Braille
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Alphabet
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Kazakh alphabet
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Braille

The braille alphabet used for the Kazakh language is based on Russian Braille, with several additional letters found in the print Kazakh alphabet.

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Alphabet

Kazakh uses all of the letters of the Russian alphabet, though some just in loans and has the additional letters ә, ғ, қ, ң, һ, ө, ұ, ү, і.

Print а a ә ä б b в v г g ғ ğ д d е e ё yo ж j з z и i й y к k
Braille Braille A1.svg Braille A.svg Braille B2.svg Braille W.svg Braille G7.svg Braille I.svg Braille D4.svg Braille E5.svg Braille A.svg Braille J0.svg Braille Z.svg Braille I9.svg Braille AND.svg Braille K.svg
Print қ q л l м m н n ң ñ о o ө ö п p р r с s т t у w ұ u ү ü
Braille Braille O.svg Braille L.svg Braille M.svg Braille N.svg Braille SH.svg Braille O.svg Braille E.svg Braille P.svg Braille R.svg Braille S.svg Braille T.svg Braille U.svg Braille O.svg Braille ST.svg
Print ф f х x һ h ц c ч ç ш ş щ şç ъ ʕ ы ɨ і ı ь ʔ э ê ю yu я ya
Braille Braille F6.svg Braille H8.svg Braille V.svg Braille C3.svg Braille Q.svg Braille U.svg Braille X.svg Braille A.svg Braille E.svg Braille Y.svg Braille U.svg Braille O.svg Braille U.svg Braille E.svg

Apart from і, which once existed in Russian Braille and ұ, which is the same as the ў of Belarusian Braille (a letter which was used in earlier Kazakh alphabets with the same value), the braille values assigned to the extra Kazakh letters do not follow the assignments of other languages that use the Cyrillic script in print. They also do not follow international norms, apart from ә (Latin ä).

Punctuation

Single punctuation:

Print,. ? ! ; :
Braille Braille Comma.svg Braille Period.svg Braille QuestionMark.svg Braille ExclamationPoint.svg Braille Semicolon.svg Braille Colon.svg

Paired punctuation:

Kazakh Braille is reported to use the Russian arithmetical parentheses ... .

Print« ... »( ... )
Braille Braille QuoteOpen.svg ... Braille QuoteClose.svg Braille E.svg ... Braille A.svg

Formatting

italics capitalnumber
Braille CursiveSign.svg Braille DecimalPoint.svg Braille NumberSign.svg

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