Hawaiian Braille is the
braille
Braille (Pronounced: ) is a tactile writing system used by people who are visually impaired, including people who are blind, deafblind or who have low vision. It can be read either on embossed paper or by using refreshable braille disp ...
alphabet of the
Hawaiian language. It is a subset of the
basic 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 ...
alphabet,
:
supplemented by an additional letter to mark long vowels:
:
(
Māori Braille uses the same convention for long vowels.)
[UNESCO (2013]
World Braille Usage
3rd edition.
Unlike
print Hawaiian, which has a special letter
ʻokina for the
glottal stop, Hawaiian Braille uses the apostrophe , which behaves as punctuation rather than as a consonant:
: ''āina''
: ''Āina''
That is, the order to write ''Ā'' is ''apostrophe, cap sign, length sign, A''.
Punctuation is as in
English Braille.
References
{{Braille
French-ordered braille alphabets
Hawaiian language