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Philippine Braille
Filipino Braille
Script type
Alphabet
Print basis
Filipino alphabet; Abakada alphabet
LanguagesTagalog, Ilocano, Cebuano, Hiligaynon, Bicol
Related scripts
Parent systems
Braille
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Philippine Braille or Filipino Braille is the braille alphabet of the Philippines. Besides Filipino (Tagalog), essentially the same alphabet is used for Ilocano, Cebuano, Hiligaynon and Bicol.[1][2]

Philippine Braille is based on the 26 letters of the basic braille alphabet used for Grade-1 English Braille, so the print digraph ng is written as a digraph in braille as well. The print letter ñ is rendered with the generic accent point, . These are considered part of the alphabet, which is therefore,

⠁ (braille pattern dots-1)
a
⠃ (braille pattern dots-12)
b
⠉ (braille pattern dots-14)
c
⠙ (braille pattern dots-145)
d
⠑ (braille pattern dots-15)
e
⠋ (braille pattern dots-124)
f
⠛ (braille pattern dots-1245)
g
⠓ (braille pattern dots-125)
h
⠊ (braille pattern dots-24)
i
⠚ (braille pattern dots-245)
j
⠅ (braille pattern dots-13)
k
⠇ (braille pattern dots-123)
l
⠍ (braille pattern dots-134)
m
⠝ (braille pattern dots-1345)
n
⠈ (braille pattern dots-4)⠝ (braille pattern dots-1345)
ñ
⠝ (braille pattern dots-1345)⠛ (braille pattern dots-1245)
ng
⠕ (braille pattern dots-135)
o
⠏ (braille pattern dots-1234)
p
⠟ (braille pattern dots-12345)
q
⠗ (braille pattern dots-1235)
r
⠎ (braille pattern dots-234)
s
⠞ (braille pattern dots-2345)
t
⠥ (braille pattern dots-136)
u
⠧ (braille pattern dots-1236)
v
⠺ (braille pattern dots-2456)
w
⠭ (braille pattern dots-1346)
x
⠽ (braille pattern dots-13456)
y
⠵ (braille pattern dots-1356)
z

Numbers and punctuation are as in traditional English Braille, though the virgule / is as in Unified English Braille.

  1. ^ UNESCO 2013.
  2. ^ The 17th edition of Ethnologue reports braille usage for Kapampangan, Pangasinan, Waray, and Chavacano as well. They use presumably the same conventions as Filipino.

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