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Irish Braille is the braille alphabet of the Irish language. It is augmented by specifically Irish letters for vowels with acute accents in print: á. é. í. ó. ú. ⠿é and ⠾ú are coincidentally the French Braille letters for é and ù: They are simply the braille letters of the third decade after z, assigned to print in alphabetical order.
Braille (/ b r eɪ l / BRAYL, French:) is a tactile writing system used by people who are visually impaired. It can be read either on embossed paper or by using refreshable braille displays that connect to computers and smartphone devices.
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- Unification of 1878
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Braille arranged his characters in decades (groups of ten), and assigned the 25 letters of the French alphabet to them in order. The characters beyond the first 25 are the principal source of variation today. In the first decade, only the top four dots are used; the two supplementary characters have dots only on the right. These patterns are repeat...
Braille is in its origin a numeric code. Louis Braille applied the characters in numerical order to the French alphabet in alphabetical order. As braille spread to other languages, the numeric order was retained and applied to the local script. Therefore, where the alphabetical order differed from that of French, the new braille alphabet would be i...
In 1929 in Paris, the American Foundation for Overseas Blind sponsored a conference on harmonizing braille among languages which use the Latin script, which had diverged in the previous decades.
When additional letters are needed for a new braille alphabet, several remedies are used. 1. They may be borrowed from an existing alphabet; French–German ⠜ ä, ⠪ ö, and ⠳ ü, for example, are widely used where a language had need of a second a-, o-, or u-vowel. Likewise, the values of English contracted ("Grade 2") ⠡ ch, ⠩ sh, and ⠹ thare widely use...
"World Braille Usage" (2nd ed.). UNESCO. 1990. Retrieved 2012-04-19.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)6 days ago · Braille, universally accepted system of writing used by and for blind persons, invented by Louis Braille in 1824. It consists of a code of 63 characters, each made up of one to six raised dots arranged in a six-position matrix or cell.
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INBAF strives to help and advise anyone who utilizes braille, large print and other alternative formats and has an interest in same, in all matters related to the Irish and English braille code and format standards as used now and into the future.
All people who learnt to read braille in Ireland before 2013 learned Standard English Braille (SEB), also known as non-UEB. This type of braille has an Irish language equivalent, Standard Irish Braille (SIB).
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Jun 2, 2024 · Quick links: Unified English Braille, IPA Braille, Developing Braille Codes for Languages other than English: Best Practices, Committees, Contact Us, Site Map. Braille, a system of raised dots, is the primary literacy medium for people who are blind, deafblind, or have severe low vision.
