Māori 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

Māori language Māori (), or ('the Māori language'), also known as ('the language'), is an Eastern Polynesian language spoken by the Māori people, the indigenous population of mainland New Zealand. Closely related to Cook Islands Māori, Tuamotuan, and ...

. It takes the letter ''wh'' from

English Braille English Braille, also known as ''Grade 2 Braille'', is the braille alphabet used for English. It consists of around 250 letters ( phonograms), numerals, punctuation, formatting marks, contractions, and abbreviations (logograms). Some English Bra ...

, and has an additional letter to mark long vowels. (

Hawaiian Braille Hawaiian Braille is the braille 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 ...

uses the same convention for its long vowels.) When

Unified English Braille Unified English Braille Code (UEBC, formerly UBC, now usually simply UEB) is an English language Braille code standard, developed to permit representing the wide variety of literary and technical material in use in the English-speaking world today ...

was adopted by New Zealand, it was determined that Māori Braille was compatible, and would continue to be used unchanged. The following letters and digraphs are therefore used beyond the letters of the basic Latin alphabet: : ''Ng'' is written , as in print. Punctuation is as in

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