Bengali Braille

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Bengali Braille
বাংলা ব্রেইল
Bangla Braille
Script type
Print basis
Bengali alphabet
LanguagesBengali,
Related scripts
Parent systems

Bengali Braille is used for the Bengali and Assamese. According to UNESCO (2013),[1] there are slight different braille conventions for Bengali language in Bangladesh and India, this article compares Bengali Braille in the two countries.

Bengali Braille chart[edit]

Vowel Alphabets[edit]

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India Template:Braille cell

Consonant Alphabets[edit]

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India Template:Braille cell Template:Braille cell
Print
Bangladesh
&
India
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Print র / ৰ[3] [4]
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India Template:Braille cell Template:Braille cell
Print ক্ষ জ্ঞ ড় ঢ় য়[5]
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India Template:Braille cell (?)[6]

Codas (Script modifiers)[edit]

Print
 ্  ং  ঃ  ঁ
Bangladesh
&
India
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Numerals[edit]

Bengali numerals
Bangladesh
&
India
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Punctuation marks[edit]

Print , ; : ? ! -
Bangladesh
&
India
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Print ‘ ... ’ [ ... ] / *
Bangladesh
&
India
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See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. World Braille Usage Archived 2014-09-08 at the Wayback Machine, UNESCO, 2013
  2. The braille letter for is not attested from Bangladesh. (It is an obsolete vowel in modern Bengali language.)
  3. "র" for Bengali in Bangladesh and India and "ৰ" for Assamese in India only.
  4. This alphabet "ৱ" is used in Assamese in India. (Similar to the "ভ" of Bangladesh standard.)
  5. In other Bharati braille alphabets, this is transcribed as short vowel e.
  6. The braille letter for is not attested from India.

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