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French Braille
Script type
Alphabet
(non-linear)
Creator
Louis Braille
Time period
1837
Print basis
French alphabet
Languages
French
Related scripts
Parent systems
night writing
early braille
French Braille
Child systems
English Braille German Braille Arabic Braille etc., etc.
Unicode
Unicode range
U+2800 to U+283F
French Braille is the original braille alphabet, and the basis of all others. The alphabetic order of French has become the basis of the international braille convention, used by most braille alphabets around the world. However, only the 25 basic letters of the French alphabet plus w have become internationalized; the additional letters are largely restricted to French Braille and the alphabets of some neighboring European countries.
FrenchBraille is the original braille alphabet, and the basis of all others. The alphabetic order of French has become the basis of the international...
Unicode Braille characters. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Braille characters. Braille (/breɪl/...
The goal of braille uniformity is to unify the braille alphabets of the world as much as possible, so that literacy in one braille alphabet readily transfers...
Louis Braille (/breɪl/ brayl; French: [lwi bʁɑj]; 4 January 1809 – 6 January 1852) was a French educator and the inventor of a reading and writing system...
Spanish Braille is the braille alphabet of Spanish and Galician. It is very close to FrenchBraille, with the addition of a letter for ñ, slight modification...
reduced form it is used for Greenlandic. Scandinavian Braille is very close to FrenchBraille, with slight modification of some of the accented letters...
as Modified Braille. In 1900 it was renamed American Braille. Rather than ordering the letters numerically, as was done in FrenchBraille and the (reordered)...
symbols instead of Braille characters. English Braille, also known as Grade 2 Braille, is the braille alphabet used for English. It consists of around...
Braille is the braille alphabet used for the Vietnamese language. It is very close to FrenchBraille (and thus to a lesser degree to English Braille)...
Algerian Braille was a braille alphabet used to write the Arabic language in Algeria. It is apparently obsolete. In Algerian Braille, the braille letters...
letters the same as Louis Braille's original assignments for FrenchBraille. Slovak Braille is as follows: That is, it is Czech Braille with the following additions:...
Italian Braille is the braille alphabet of the Italian language, both in Italy and in Switzerland. It is very close to FrenchBraille, with some differences...
in modern braille, most of the higher decades were derived from the first: Decades 1–4 were the same as today and had their modern French values. Decade...
Greek Braille is the braille alphabet of the Greek language. It is based on international braille conventions, generally corresponding to Latin transliteration...
Turkish Braille (kabartma yazı) is the braille alphabet of the Turkish language. Turkish Braille follows international usage. The vowels with diacritics...
There is even more overlap with the Faroese Braille. The base letters are the same as in FrenchBraille. Note that c, q, w, and z are not used in Modern...
Catalan Braille is the braille alphabet of the Catalan language. It is very close to FrenchBraille: it uses the 26 letters of the basic braille alphabet...
Dutch Braille is the braille alphabet used for the Dutch language in the Netherlands and in Flanders. In the Netherlands, braille was introduced in 1890...
Luxembourgish Braille is the braille alphabet of the Luxembourgish language. It is very close to FrenchBraille, but uses eight-dot cells, with the extra...
The FrenchBraille letters for vowels with a grave accent in print tend to be used for vowels with an acute accents in Portuguese Braille. (See French Braille#Similar...
French (français, French: [fʁɑ̃sɛ], or langue française, French: [lɑ̃ɡ fʁɑ̃sɛːz], or by some speakers, French: [lɑ̃ŋ fʁɑ̃sɛ]) is a Romance language of...
print: ⠿ é and ⠾ ú are coincidentally the FrenchBraille letters for é and ù: They are simply the braille letters of the third decade after z, assigned...
Romanian Braille is the braille alphabet of the Romanian language. It has the 25 letters of basic FrenchBraille (no w) plus the following additional...
International Braille (meaning the FrenchBraille alphabet, as that was the first one created). The letters are also the same as the other Nordic Braille alphabets...
Braille characters. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Braille characters. IPA Braille is...
delimiters. Quebec French (French: français québécois [fʁɑ̃sɛ kebekwa]), also known as Québécois French, is the predominant variety of the French language spoken...
Taiwanese Braille is the braille script used in Taiwan for Taiwanese Mandarin (Guoyu). Although based marginally on international braille, most consonants...
Swiss French (French: français de Suisse or suisse romand) is the variety of French spoken in the French-speaking area of Switzerland known as Romandy...
German Braille is one of the older braille alphabets. The French-based order of the letter assignments was largely settled on with the 1878 convention...
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