Arabic Braille

Arabic Braille
⠃⠗⠊⠇⠀⠷⠗⠃⠊⠡
Arabic Braille; ⠃⠗⠊⠇⠀⠷⠗⠃⠊⠡
Script type	abjad ca. 1950
Print basis	Arabic alphabet
Languages	Arabic
Related scripts
Parent systems	Braille English Braille Coptic Braille Arabic Braille; ; ;

Arabic Braille (Arabic: بِرَيْل الْعَرَبِيَّة, birayl alʿarabīyah) is the braille alphabet for the^[1] Other Arabic-based alphabets have braille systems similar to Arabic Braille, such as Urdu and Persian Braille, but differ in some letter and diacritic assignments.^[2]

Unlike the Arabic script, Arabic Braille is read from left to right, following the international convention. Numbers are also left to right, as in printed Arabic.

Arabic Braille chart

Arabic Braille includes numerous abbreviations, some marked by dot 4 or dot 5 (the comma), which are not described here. A conference in Saudi Arabia in 2002 set up a unified braille standard for Arabic, but as of 2013 not all countries had signed up; those not adopting the standard include some Arab countries but also non-Arab Muslim countries such as Iran, Malaysia, and Indonesia.

Letters

Although short-vowel letters are not diacritics in Arabic Braille, they are optional and generally omitted, just as in print Arabic.

Print	ا‎	ب‎	ت‎	ث‎	ج‎	ح‎	خ‎	د‎	ذ‎	ر‎
Braille
Braille (Unicode)	⠁	⠃	⠞	⠹	⠚	⠱	⠭	⠙	⠮	⠗

Print	ز‎	س‎	ش‎	ص‎	ض‎	ط‎	ظ‎	ع‎	غ‎	ف‎
Braille
Braille (Unicode)	⠵	⠎	⠩	⠯	⠫	⠾	⠿	⠷	⠣	⠋

Print	ق‎	ك‎	ل‎	م‎	ن‎	ه‎	و‎	ي‎	ى‎	ة‎
Braille
Braille (Unicode)	⠟	⠅	⠇	⠍	⠝	⠓	⠺	⠊	⠕	⠡

Print	ال‎	ﻻ‎	أ‎	إ‎	آ‎	أو‎	ؤ‎	ئ‎	ء‎
Braille
Braille (Unicode)	⠉	⠧	⠌	⠨	⠜	⠪	⠳	⠽	⠄

Print	ــُ‎	ــَ‎	ــِ‎	ــٌ‎	ــً‎	ــٍ‎	ــْ‎	ــّ‎
Braille
Braille (Unicode)	⠥	⠂	⠑	⠢	⠰	⠔	⠒	⠠

Shaddah ⟨ــّ‎⟩ comes before the consonant; sukun ⟨ــْ‎⟩ and the vowels after.

Digits

Arabic Braille follows the French convention. A couple of these cells, namely ⠉ '3' and ⠛ '7', are not used for letters.

Print		١ 1	٢ 2	٣ 3	٤ 4	٥ 5	٦ 6	٧ 7	٨ 8	٩ 9	٠ 0
Braille

Punctuation and formatting

There are some differences in quotation marks, brackets, and underlining between traditional and unified Arabic braille conventions.

Common punctuation

Print	،	؛	:	.	!	؟	-
Braille
Braille (Unicode)	⠐	⠰	⠐⠂	⠲	⠖	⠦	⠤

Legacy punctuation

Print	“...”	(...)	*	abbre- viation	under- lining
Braille	...	...
Braille (Unicode)	⠦ ⠴	⠶ ⠶	⠔⠔	⠈	⠨

Unified Arabic punctuation

Print	“...”	(...)	[...]	{...}	underlining
Braille	...	...	...	...
Braille (Unicode)	⠶ ⠶	⠦ ⠴	⠠⠦ ⠴⠄	⠐⠦ ⠴⠂	⠠⠤

External links

Arabic to Braille Translator

References

^ "Archived copy". www.sagma.ma. Archived from the original on 5 June 2007. Retrieved 14 January 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
^ "World Braille Usage" (PDF). UNESCO. Retrieved 2012-04-27.

[1] "Archived copy". www.sagma.ma. Archived from the original on 5 June 2007. Retrieved 14 January 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

[Unesco-2] "World Braille Usage" (PDF). UNESCO. Retrieved 2012-04-27.

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