Icelandic Braille is the
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 of the
Icelandic language
Icelandic (; is, íslenska, link=no ) is a North Germanic language spoken by about 314,000 people, the vast majority of whom live in Iceland, where it is the national language. Due to being a West Scandinavian language, it is most closely re ...
.
Alphabet
The letter assignment is the same as in the
Scandinavian Braille
Scandinavian Braille is a braille alphabet used, with differences in orthography and punctuation, for the languages of the mainland Nordic countries: Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, and Finnish. In a generally reduced form it is used for Greenlandic ...
with the addition of certain Icelandic letters, there is even more overlap with the
Faroese Braille
Faroese Braille is the braille alphabet of the Faroese language. It has the same basic letter assignments as the Scandinavian Braille
Scandinavian Braille is a braille alphabet used, with differences in orthography and punctuation, for the la ...
. The base alphabet is the same as in
French Braille
French Braille is the original braille alphabet, and the basis of all others. The alphabetic order of French has become the basis of the international braille convention, used by most braille alphabets around the world. However, only the 25 basic ...
. Note that ''c'', ''q'', ''w'', and ''z'' are not used in Modern Icelandic, but are included so that foreign proper names can still be spelt.
Punctuation
UNESCO
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(2013) reports that is both the mark of capitalization and the
ellipsis
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. However, as they have wrong info about which letters mean which in the alphabet in regard to the Nordic countries, this information is not to be trusted.
References
Icelandic Braille(in Icelandic)
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French-ordered braille alphabets
Icelandic language