Punjabi 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 used in India for Punjabi. It is one of the

Bharati braille Bharati braille ( ), or Bharatiya Braille ( hi, भारती ब्रेल ' "Indian braille"), is a largely unified braille script for writing the languages of India. When India gained independence, eleven braille scripts were in use, in d ...

alphabets, and largely conforms to the letter values of the other Bharati alphabets.World Braille Usage
UNESCO, -2013

Alphabet

The alphabet is as follows.UNESCO (2013
World Braille Usage
3rd edition. Vowel letters are used rather than diacritics, and they occur after consonants in their spoken order. For orthographic conventions, see

Bharati Braille Bharati braille ( ), or Bharatiya Braille ( hi, भारती ब्रेल ' "Indian braille"), is a largely unified braille script for writing the languages of India. When India gained independence, eleven braille scripts were in use, in d ...

Pointing

The Bharati point, , is only used to derive one consonant, ਗ਼ ''ġa'' , from the base consonant letter ਗ ''ga'' . This system also operates in

Hindi Braille Hindi (Devanāgarī: or , ), or more precisely Modern Standard Hindi (Devanagari: ), is an Indo-Aryan language spoken chiefly in the Hindi Belt region encompassing parts of northern, central, eastern, and western India. Hindi has been ...

and

Indian Urdu Braille According to UNESCO (2013),World Braille Usage
UNESCO, 2013 there are di ...

, but the Punjabi Braille alphabet is closer to Indian Urdu, as all other consonants that are pointed in print, such as ਖ਼ ''xa'', are rendered with dedicated letters in braille based on international values. The six pointed letters in the Gurmukhi script have the following equivalents in braille:

Codas

Points are used for syllable codas.

Punctuation

See Bharati Braille#Punctuation.

References

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