Māori Braille

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Māori Braille
Script type
alphabet
Print basis
Māori alphabet
Languages Māori
Related scripts
Parent systems
Braille

Māori Braille is the braille alphabet of the Māori language. It takes the letter wh from English Braille, and has an additional letter to mark long vowels. (Hawaiian Braille uses the same convention for its long vowels.) When Unified English Braille was adopted by New Zealand, it was determined that Māori Braille was compatible, and would continue to be used unchanged. [1]

The following letters and digraphs are therefore used beyond the letters of the basic Latin alphabet:

Braille U.svg Braille CursiveSign.svg Braille A1.svg Braille CursiveSign.svg Braille E5.svg Braille CursiveSign.svg Braille I9.svg Braille CursiveSign.svg Braille O.svg Braille CursiveSign.svg Braille U.svg
wh ā ē ī ō ū

Ng is written , as in print.

Punctuation is as in English Braille.

References

  1. "UEB in New Zealand 2008–2012" . Retrieved 16 August 2012.