Italian Braille
Braille alphabet of the Italian language
Italian Braille
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Italian Braille is the braille alphabet of the Italian language , both in Italy and in Switzerland. It is very close to French Braille , with some differences in punctuation.
Alphabet
Since French Braille does not have a letter for ó , Italian Braille uses ⠬ ò for both ò and ó .
If other letters are needed, such as j, k, w, x, y or accented vowels such as î , French Braille assignments are used. ⠚ j is used as the digit 0.
Numbers
Digits are the first ten letters of the alphabet, and are marked by ⠼ , as in English Braille .
Although a dot as full stop (period) is ⠲ , a dot as a digit separator, as in 3.500 for three thousand five hundred, is ⠄ ( ⠼ ⠉ ⠄ ⠑ ⠚ ⠚ ).
Punctuation
, | . (stop) | . (num.) | ? | ! | ; | : | ' | - | * |
⠲ is the full stop / period; ⠄ is the digit separator in numbers.
... | ... | ... | ... | ... |
« ... » | ( ... ) or [ ... ]* | ( ... ) | [ ... ] | { ... } |
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* According to Unesco (2013), Italian Braille uses the old French parentheses ⠶ ⠀ ⠶ as square brackets. According to the Unione Italiana Ciechi di Legnano , those are used for parentheses; square brackets are not given. And according to the Unione Italiana dei Ciechi e degli Ipovedenti , square brackets are ⠷ ⠀ ⠾ ; Unesco and the Unione agree on the assignment of ⠢ ⠀ ⠔ to the parentheses, as in the chart above, and the Unione has ⠯ ⠀ ⠽ for braces. ( ⠯ ç and ⠽ y are not part of the Italian alphabet.) However, the Unione specifies than the symmetrically paired brackets are mathematical notation, so it may be that the old, generic ⠶ ⠀ ⠶ is the convention for either parentheses or square brackets in non-mathematical text.
Formatting
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References
- Unione Italiana Ciechi di Legnano
- Codice Braille from the Unione Italiana dei Ciechi e degli Ipovedenti
- UNESCO (2013) World Braille Usage , 3rd edition.
Braille
⠃⠗⠁⠊⠇⠇⠑
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