Persian Braille Explained

Persian Braille
Type:	abjad
Languages:	Persian
Fam1:	Braille
Fam2:	English Braille
Print:	Persian alphabet
Children:	Urdu Braille
Note:	none

Persian Braille (Persian: بریل فارسی) is the braille alphabet for the Persian language. It is largely compatible with Arabic Braille, which may be found (in uncontracted form)^[1] within Persian Braille texts. There are a few additional Persian letters that do not exist in Arabic.^[2]

Persian Braille is read from left to right, following the international convention. Numbers are also left to right, rather than switching direction as they do in printed Arabic.

Persian Braille charts

Numbers and arithmetic

Numbers are the same as in English Braille. Arithmetical symbols are introduced by a separate braille prefix.

Print		Persian: [[۱]]	Persian: [[۲]]	Persian: [[۳]]	Persian: [[۴]]	Persian: [[۵]]	Persian: [[۶]]	Persian: [[۷]]	Persian: [[۸]]	Persian: [[۹]]	Persian: [[۰]]
Braille
Print		Persian: [[+]]		Persian: [[−]]		Persian: [[×]]		Persian: [[÷]]		Persian: [[=]]
Braille

Numbers follow operands without a space.^[4] For example,

2=۲ × ۳ = ۶is in braille,

Punctuation

Print	,	.	?	!			–	—	“ ... ”	(...)
Braille									...	...

See also

• Arabic Braille
• Tajik Braille
• Urdu Braille

Notes and References

1. There are conflicts with contracted Arabic Braille. Arabic al- is equivalent to Persian ch, for example.
2. Web site: آموزش خط بریل: : خانواده خوشبخت : : دنیای کودکان : : کودکان استثنایی . 2012-08-16 . https://web.archive.org/web/20121005080538/http://www.tebyan-zn.ir/News-Article/blest_family/Childeren_world/special_children/2011/10/13/41461.html . 2012-10-05 . dead .
3. Per Unesco (2013), may be used when the letter ى is pronounced, and may be used when it's pronounced, but due to the conflation of these in print, they may both be written in braille.
4. Web site: اعداد و علائم ریاضی در خط بریل — موسسه فرهنگی هنری نابینایان بصیر . 2012-08-16 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140915184700/http://www.bassir.ir/?p=1578 . 2014-09-15 . dead .