Yugoslav Braille

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Yugoslav Braille
Script type
Alphabet
Print basis
Gaj's Latin alphabet
Macedonian alphabet
Slovene alphabet
Languages Serbo-Croatian, Slovene, Macedonian
Related scripts
Parent systems
Braille
  • Yugoslav Braille

Yugoslav Braille is a family of closely related braille alphabets used for South Slavic languages of former Yugoslavia, namely Serbo-Croatian, Slovene and Macedonian. It is based on the unified international braille conventions, with the letters corresponding to their Latin transliterations.

Contents

Alphabet

Braille Braille A1.svg Braille B2.svg Braille C3.svg Braille SH.svg Braille A.svg Braille D4.svg Braille O.svg Braille I.svg Braille U.svg Braille E5.svg Braille F6.svg Braille G7.svg Braille A.svg
Serbian а б ц ћ ч д ђ џ - е ф г -
Croatian a b c ć č d đ - e f g -
Macedonian а б ц - ч д - џ ѕ е ф г ѓ
Slovene a b c - č d --- e f g -
Braille Braille H8.svg Braille I9.svg Braille J0.svg Braille K.svg Braille ST.svg Braille L.svg Braille E.svg Braille M.svg Braille N.svg Braille E.svg Braille O.svg Braille P.svg  
Serbian х и ј к - л љ м н њ о п  
Croatian h i j k - l lj m n nj o p  
Macedonian х и ј к ќ л љ м н њ о п  
Slovene h i j k - l - m n - o p  
Braille Braille Q.svg Braille R.svg Braille S.svg Braille U.svg Braille T.svg Braille U.svg Braille V.svg Braille W.svg Braille X.svg Braille Y.svg Braille Z.svg Braille E.svg  
Serbian- р с ш т у в --- з ж  
Croatian- r s š t u v --- z ž  
Macedonian- р с ш т у в --- з ж  
Slovene- r s š t u v --- z ž  
Accents
(print accents illustrated on the letter e)
Printèȅéȇ
Braille Braille Accent.svg Braille ContractionPrefix.svg Braille Currency.svg Braille Correction.svg

Punctuation

Unesco reports that Croatian Braille swaps the Serbian quotation marks for parentheses and the period/full stop for the apostrophe, but it's possible that this is due to a copy error; the table below follows Croatian Wikipedia, which agrees with Serbian, for these characters. [1] There is less punctuation reported for Slovene and Macedonian Braille, but what there is matches Serbian conventions.

Blank cells in the tables are unattested.

Single punctuation:

Print,. [1] ?!' [1] ;:*-_/&§ and ¶
Croatian Braille Comma.svg Braille Period.svg Braille QuestionMark.svg Braille ExclamationPoint.svg Braille Apostrophe.svg Braille Semicolon.svg Braille Colon.svg Braille Asterisk.svg Braille Hyphen.svg Braille U.svg Braille AND.svg Braille O.svg
Serbian Braille CapitalSign.svg Braille Hyphen.svg Braille ST.svg

Paired punctuation:

Print“…” [1] ‘…’(…) [1] […]{…}
Croatian Braille QuoteOpen.svg ... Braille QuoteClose.svg Braille Apostrophe.svg ... Braille Apostrophe.svg Braille Bracket.svg ... Braille Bracket.svg Braille A.svg ... Braille U.svg
Serbian Braille QuoteOpen.svg Braille Apostrophe.svg ... Braille CapitalSign.svg Braille QuoteClose.svg Braille Bracket.svg Braille Apostrophe.svg ... Braille CapitalSign.svg Braille Bracket.svg Braille Bracket.svg Braille Semicolon.svg ... Braille Correction.svg Braille Bracket.svg

Formatting

Braille NumberSign.svg Braille CapitalSign.svg Braille DecimalPoint.svg Braille Currency.svg Braille CapitalSign.svg Braille CursiveSign.svg Braille ST.svg
(num.)(end
num.)
(Caps)(CAPS)(l.c.)(emph.)(super-
script)

The superscript is reported for Croatian Braille; in Serbian Braille, is used for the virgule /. In Slovene Braille, the emphasis (bold/italic) marker is reported to be an abbreviation sign.

Croatian Wikipedia states that is used for capital letters.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 The Croatian apostrophe is unusual by international standards, and it is possible the period and apostrophe were swapped in a copy error by Unesco (2013) and copied from them to other sources. Croatian Wikipedia gives for the period and for parentheses, both agreeing with Serbian Braille.