Bengali Braille
Bengali Braille বাংলা ব্রেইল Bangla Braille | |
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Script type | |
Print basis | Bengali alphabet |
Languages | Bengali, |
Related scripts | |
Parent systems | Night writing
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Bengali Braille is used for the Bengali and Assamese languages. 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[]
Vowel Alphabets[]
অ | আ | ই | ঈ | উ | ঊ | এ | ঐ | ও | ঔ | ঋ | ঌ | |
Bangladesh | -[2] | |||||||||||
India |
Consonant Alphabets[]
ক | খ | গ | ঘ | ঙ | চ | ছ | জ | ঝ | ঞ | |
Bangladesh | ||||||||||
India |
ট | ঠ | ড | ঢ | ণ | ত | থ | দ | ধ | ন | |
Bangladesh & India |
প | ফ | ব | ভ | ম | য | র / ৰ[3] | ল | ৱ[4] | |
Bangladesh | - | ||||||||
India |
শ | ষ | স | হ | ক্ষ | জ্ঞ | ড় | ঢ় | য়[5] | ৎ | ||
Bangladesh | |||||||||||
India | (?)[6] |
Codas (Script modifiers)[]
্ | ং | ঃ | ঁ | ঽ | । | ||||||
Bangladesh & India |
Numerals[]
Bengali numerals | ১ | ২ | ৩ | ৪ | ৫ | ৬ | ৭ | ৮ | ৯ | ০ |
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Bangladesh & India |
Punctuation marks[]
, | ; | : | ? | ! | - | — | |
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Bangladesh & India |
‘ ... ’ | [ ... ] | / | * | |
Bangladesh & India |
See also[]
- Bharati braille
References[]
- ^ World Braille Usage Archived 2014-09-08 at the Wayback Machine, UNESCO, 2013
- ^ The braille letter for ঌ is not attested from Bangladesh. (It is an obsolete vowel in modern Bengali language.)
- ^ "র" for Bengali in Bangladesh and India and "ৰ" for Assamese in India only.
- ^ This alphabet "ৱ" is used in Assamese in India. (Similar to the "ভ" of Bangladesh standard.)
- ^ In other Bharati braille alphabets, this is transcribed as short vowel e.
- ^ The braille letter for ৎ is not attested from India.
Categories:
- Bharati braille alphabets
- Bengali language