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".