Polish Braille (''alfabet Braille'a'') is a
braille
Braille (Pronounced: ) is a tactile writing system used by people who are visually impaired, including people who are blind, deafblind or who have low vision. It can be read either on embossed paper or by using refreshable braille disp ...
alphabet for writing the
Polish language
Polish (Polish: ''język polski'', , ''polszczyzna'' or simply ''polski'', ) is a West Slavic language of the Lechitic group written in the Latin script. It is spoken primarily in Poland and serves as the native language of the Poles. In a ...
. It is based on
international 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 ...
conventions, with the following extensions:
That is, for letters of the first and second
decade
A decade () is a period of ten years. Decades may describe any ten-year period, such as those of a person's life, or refer to specific groupings of calendar years.
Usage
Any period of ten years is a "decade". For example, the statement that "du ...
of the braille script (a, c, e, l, n, s), a diacritic is written as dot 6, and any dot 3 is removed (or, equivalently, is moved to position 6)—that is, the base letter is moved to the fourth decade. For letters of the third decade (u, y, z), which already have a dot 6, the derivation is a mirror image. ''Ó'' is derived from ''u'', which is how it is pronounced (also, the mirror image of ''o'' is already taken). Several of these conventions are used in
Lithuanian Braille.
History
Some form of a Braille alphabet had been adapted to the Polish language by 1957.
Alphabet
The full alphabet is thus:
Print digraphs in ''z'' are written as two letters in braille as well: ''cz'', ''rz'', ''sz''.
Punctuation
;Paired punctuation
Formatting
External links
(a detailed account of typesetting Polish Braille)
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Braille Translator online(Conversion of typed text on the Braille characters, full of Polish notation.)
References
French-ordered braille alphabets
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