Bulgarian Braille is a

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 ...

alphabet for writing the

Bulgarian language Bulgarian (, ; bg, label=none, български, bălgarski, ) is an Eastern South Slavic language spoken in Southeastern Europe, primarily in Bulgaria. It is the language of the Bulgarians. Along with the closely related Macedonian la ...

. It is based on the

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 ...

conventions, with braille letters approximating their

Latin Latin (, or , ) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages. Latin was originally a dialect spoken in the lower Tiber area (then known as Latium) around present-day Rome, but through the power of the ...

transliteration Transliteration is a type of conversion of a text from one writing system, script to another that involves swapping Letter (alphabet), letters (thus ''wikt:trans-#Prefix, trans-'' + ''wikt:littera#Latin, liter-'') in predictable ways, such as ...

, and the same punctuation, with the French question mark. In Bulgarian, it is known as Брайлова азбука (''Brailova azbuka'') "braille alphabet".

Alphabet

Bulgarian is nearly identical to

Russian Braille Russian Braille is the braille alphabet of the Russian language. With suitable extensions, it is used for languages of neighboring countries that are written in Cyrillic in print, such as Ukrainian and Mongolian. It is based on the Latin trans ...

where they overlap. Bulgarian lacks a few Russian letters, and has the additional letter '' ѝ'', which takes the place of Russian '' й'' (with Bulgarian ''й'' being the mirror image of that).http://www.znam.bg/com/action/showArticle;jsessionid=C7D34A25A148A461BBE399E91BD04E49?encID=1&article=3545318554

Alphabet

Punctuation

Formatting

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