Turkish Braille (''kabartma yazı'') 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

Turkish language Turkish ( , ), also referred to as Turkish of Turkey (''Türkiye Türkçesi''), is the most widely spoken of the Turkic languages, with around 80 to 90 million speakers. It is the national language of Turkey and Northern Cyprus. Significant sma ...

Alphabet

Turkish Braille follows international usage. The vowels with diacritics, ''ö'' and ''ü'', have their French/German forms, whereas the consonants with diacritics, ''ç, ğ,'' and ''ş,'' have the forms of the nearest English approximations, ''ch, gh,'' and ''sh.'' Dotless ''i'' is derived by shifting down. The accent point, , is used for ''â, î, û''. Point is used for capitals.(two Turkish Braille charts)
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Punctuation

Punctuation and arithmetical signs are as follows: is perhaps related to in

Irish Braille Irish Braille is the braille alphabet of the Irish language. It is augmented by specifically Irish letters for vowels with acute accents in print: : ''é'' and ''ú'' are coincidentally the French Braille letters for ''é'' and ''ù'': They ...

, which marks a new line of verse. For quotations, the dash — is used differently from inverted commas “...”, for example when transcribing short turns in dialog.

Extensions to other languages

Azeri (Azerbaijani) Braille adds the letters ''x'' and ''q'' with their international forms and . These letters are used in Azeri Braille, or in the case of Turkish Braille, in foreign words. ''w'' is only used for foreign words in both Turkish and Azeri Braille. Azeri Braille uses the accent mark to derive print ''ə'' (formerly ''ä'') from ''a''.World Braille Usage
UNESCO, 2013

References

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