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Armenian Braille is either of two
World Braille Usage
3rd ed. The conventions for Western Armenian were developed in Lebanon.
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braille
Braille (Pronounced: ) is a tactile writing system used by people who are visually impaired, including people who are Blindness, blind, Deafblindness, deafblind or who have low vision. It can be read either on Paper embossing, embossed paper ...
alphabets used for writing the Armenian language
Armenian ( classical: , reformed: , , ) is an Indo-European language and an independent branch of that family of languages. It is the official language of Armenia. Historically spoken in the Armenian Highlands, today Armenian is widely spoken t ...
. The assignments of the Armenian alphabet
The Armenian alphabet ( hy, Հայոց գրեր, ' or , ') is an alphabetic writing system used to write Armenian language, Armenian. It was developed around 405 AD by Mesrop Mashtots, an Armenian linguist and wikt:ecclesiastical, ecclesiast ...
to braille patterns is largely consistent with unified international braille
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 to another. Unification was first achieved by a convention of the ''International Congre ...
, with the same punctuation, except for the comma.
However, Eastern
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and Western
Western may refer to:
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Armenian are assigned braille letters based on different criteria.Unesco (2013)World Braille Usage
3rd ed. The conventions for Western Armenian were developed in Lebanon.
Eastern Armenian Braille
In Eastern Armenian, braille cells are assigned international values based on the historical correspondences of theArmenian script
The Armenian alphabet ( hy, Հայոց գրեր, ' or , ') is an alphabetic writing system used to write Armenian language, Armenian. It was developed around 405 AD by Mesrop Mashtots, an Armenian linguist and wikt:ecclesiastical, ecclesiast ...
. For this reason they closely match the Latin transliteration convention used in the table below.
Western Armenian Braille
In Western Armenian, braille cells are assigned according to a pronunciation which diverges from the historical origin of the letters. Thus what are transliterated ''b g d'' in the table below are assigned braille values as ''p q th'', while ''p t č̣ k'' are pronounced like English ''b d j g'' and have those braille assignments. Եւ (և) is .Common punctuation
Apart from the comma and question mark above, Eastern and Western Braille use the same punctuation.See also
* Moon type
The Moon System of Embossed Reading (commonly known as the Moon writing, Moon alphabet, Moon script, Moon type, or Moon code) is a writing system for the blind, using embossed symbols mostly derived from the Latin script (but simplified). It is ...
is a simplification of the Latin alphabet for embossing. An adaptation for Armenian-reading blind people has been proposed.
References
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