Romanian Braille Explained

Romanian Braille
Type:alphabet
Languages:Romanian
Fam1:Braille
Print:Romanian alphabet
Sample:Romanian Braille chart.jpg
Note:none

Romanian Braille is the braille alphabet of the Romanian language. It has the 25 letters of basic French Braille (no w) plus the following additional letters:


ă

î

ș

ț

â

Much of the punctuation and formatting (caps, italics) is like old French Braille:

[period], ?, (...), “...”, *, as seen in the chart at right. In addition, the dash and ellipsis are both

—, ..., values which were also reported by UNESCO (1990) but could not be confirmed by UNESCO (2013).

UNESCO (1990) reports inner quotation marks ‘...’, while the chart at right appears to show a highly unusual double point,, for the apostrophe. Other sources, however, have the normal single point, .[1]

References

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Alfabetul Braille . 2013-12-26 . 2016-03-04 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160304062712/http://centrulsc.arad.go.ro/Braille/Braille.htm . dead .