Samoan Braille Explained

Samoan Braille
Type:alphabet
Languages:Samoan
Fam1:Braille
Fam2:English Braille
Print:Samoan alphabet
Note:none

Samoan Braille is the braille alphabet of the Samoan language.[1] It is a subset of the basic braille alphabet,

supplemented by an additional letter to mark long vowels:

Unlike print Samoan, which has a special letter ʻokina for the glottal stop, Samoan Braille uses the apostrophe, which behaves as punctuation rather than as a consonant. (See Hawaiian Braille, which has a similar setup.)

Samoan Braille has an unusual punctuation mark, a reduplication sign . This is used to indicate that a word is reduplicated, as in segisegi "twilight".

Notes and References

  1. UNESCO (2013) World Braille Usage, 3rd edition.