Romanian Braille

Romanian Braille
Script type	alphabet
Print basis	Romanian alphabet
Languages	Romanian
Related scripts
Parent systems	Braille Romanian Braille

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

• Note that w is absent in Romanian braille as its usage in the Romanian language is very rare and occurs only in foreign words.

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

⠲ , ⠢ ?, ⠶⠀⠶ (...), ⠦⠀⠴ “...”, ⠔ *,

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, ⠄.

References

• Lorelei Mihală, 'Our Letter, a magazine for the blind in Romania', European Journalism Center, February 8, 2012

1. ^ "Alfabetul Braille". Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2013-12-26.

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Braille cell	1829 braille International uniformity ASCII braille Unicode braille patterns
Braille scripts	French-ordered Albanian Azerbaijani Cantonese Catalan Chinese (mainland Mandarin) (largely reassigned) Czech Dutch English (Unified English) Esperanto French German Ghanaian Guarani Hawaiian Hungarian Iñupiaq IPA Irish Italian Latvian Lithuanian Luxembourgish (extended to 8-dot) Maltese Māori Navajo Nigerian Philippine Polish Portuguese Romanian Samoan Slovak South African Spanish Taiwanese Mandarin (largely reassigned) Turkish Vietnamese Welsh Yugoslav Zambian Nordic family Estonian Faroese Icelandic Scandinavian Danish Finnish Greenlandic Northern Sámi Norwegian Swedish Russian lineage family i.e. Cyrillic-mediated scripts Belarusian Bulgarian Kazakh Kyrgyz Mongolian Russian Tatar Ukrainian Egyptian lineage family i.e. Arabic-mediated scripts Arabic Persian Urdu (Pakistan) Indian lineage family i.e. Bharati Braille Devanagari (Hindi / Marathi / Nepali) Bengali (Bangla / Assamese) Gujarati Kannada Malayalam Odia Punjabi Sinhala Tamil Telugu Urdu (India) Other scripts Amharic Armenian Burmese Dzongkha (Bhutanese) Georgian Greek Hebrew Inuktitut (reassigned vowels) Khmer Thai and Lao (Japanese vowels) Tibetan Reordered Algerian Braille (obsolete) Frequency-based American Braille (obsolete) Independent Chinese semi-syllabaries Cantonese Mainland Chinese Mandarin Taiwanese Mandarin Two-cell Chinese (Shuangpin) Japanese Korean Eight-dot Luxembourgish Kanji Gardner–Salinas braille codes (GS8)
Symbols in braille	Braille music Canadian currency marks Computer Braille Code Gardner–Salinas braille codes (science; GS8/GS6) International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) Nemeth braille code
Braille technology	Braille e-book Braille embosser Braille translator Braille watch Mountbatten Brailler Optical braille recognition Perforation Perkins Brailler Refreshable braille display Slate and stylus Braigo
People	Louis Braille Charles Barbier Róża Czacka Valentin Haüy Harris Mowbray Thakur Vishva Narain Singh Sabriye Tenberken William Bell Wait
Organisations	Braille Institute of America Braille Without Borders Japan Braille Library National Braille Association Blindness organizations Schools for the blind American Printing House for the Blind
Other tactile alphabets	Decapoint Moon type New York Point Night writing Vibratese
Related topics	Accessible publishing Braille literacy RoboBraille

v t e Romanian language
Subdialects	Wallachia Oltenia Dobruja Moldavia Bukovina Republic of Moldova Banat Transylvania Crișana Maramureș Argots and speech forms Gumuțeasca Totoiana
Dialects/related languages	Daco-Romanian (Romanian itself) Aromanian Megleno-Romanian Istro-Romanian
Linguistics	Grammar nouns verbs numbers Ă Â Î Ș Ț Former: D̦ Ŭ Lexis and vocabulary longest Romanian word traditional month names profanities Phonology
Periods of historic evolution	Classical Latin → Vulgar Latin → Common Romanian → Old Romanian → Re-latinization → Modern Romanian
Written form	Modern alphabet Romanian transitional alphabet Moldovan Cyrillic alphabet Romanian Cyrillic alphabet Romanian Braille
Institutions and movements	Transylvanian School Junimea Romanian Academy Dicționarul explicativ al limbii române Dicționarul Limbii Române Dicționar moldovenesc-românesc Academy of Sciences of Moldova
Language contact	Substrata Balkan sprachbund Linguistic parallels with Albanian Slavic superstratum and adstratum Influence on Slavic languages
Speech communities	Romanians origin diaspora Moldovans Timok Vlachs
Others	Romanian Language Day Romanian language in Serbia Romanian-language schools in Transnistria
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