Philippine Braille or Filipino 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 Philippines. Besides Filipino ( Tagalog), essentially the same alphabet is used for Ilocano, Cebuano, Hiligaynon and Bicol.The 17th edition of ''Ethnologue'' reports braille usage for Kapampangan, Pangasinan, Waray, and Chavacano as well. They use presumably the same conventions as Filipino. Philippine Braille is based on the 26 letters 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 used for Grade-1

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 ...

, so the print digraph ''ng'' is written as a digraph in braille as well. The print letter ''ñ'' is rendered with the generic accent point, . These are considered part of the alphabet, which is therefore, : Numbers and punctuation are as in traditional English Braille, though the virgule / is as in Unified English Braille.

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* {{Philippine scripts French-ordered braille alphabets Tagalog language Ilocano language Cebuano language Hiligaynon language Bikol languages