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Bengali Braille
āĻŦāĻžāĻ‚āϞāĻž āĻŦā§āϰ⧇āχāϞ
Bangla Braille
Script type
Print basis
Bengali alphabet
LanguagesBengali,
Related scripts
Parent systems

Bengali Braille is used for the Bengali and Assamese. According to UNESCO (2013),[1] there are slight different braille conventions for Bengali language in Bangladesh and India, this article compares Bengali Braille in the two countries.

Bengali Braille chart[edit | edit source]

Vowel Alphabets[edit | edit source]

Print āĻ… āφ āχ āψ āω āϊ āĻ āϐ āĻ“ āĻ” āĻ‹ āό
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Consonant Alphabets[edit | edit source]

Print āĻ• āĻ– āĻ— āϘ āĻ™ āϚ āĻ› āϜ āĻ āĻž
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Print āϟ āĻ  āĻĄ āĻĸ āĻŖ āϤ āĻĨ āĻĻ āϧ āύ
Bangladesh
&
India
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Print āĻĒ āĻĢ āĻŦ āĻ­ āĻŽ āϝ āϰ / ā§°[3] āϞ ā§ą[4]
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Print āĻļ āώ āϏ āĻš āĻ•ā§āώ āĻœā§āĻž āĻĄāĻŧ āĻĸāĻŧ āϝāĻŧ[5] ā§Ž
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Codas (Script modifiers)[edit | edit source]

Print
 ā§  āĻ‚  āσ  āρ āĻŊ āĨ¤
Bangladesh
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India
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Numerals[edit | edit source]

Bengali numerals ā§§ ⧍ ā§Š ā§Ē ā§Ģ ā§Ŧ ā§­ ā§Ž ⧝ ā§Ļ
Bangladesh
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India
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Punctuation marks[edit | edit source]

Print , ; : ? ! - —
Bangladesh
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India
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Print ‘ ... ’ [ ... ] / *
Bangladesh
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India
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See also[edit | edit source]

References[edit | edit source]

  1. ↑ World Braille Usage Archived 2014-09-08 at the Wayback Machine, UNESCO, 2013
  2. ↑ The braille letter for āό is not attested from Bangladesh. (It is an obsolete vowel in modern Bengali language.)
  3. ↑ "āϰ" for Bengali in Bangladesh and India and "ā§°" for Assamese in India only.
  4. ↑ This alphabet "ā§ą" is used in Assamese in India. (Similar to the "āĻ­" of Bangladesh standard.)
  5. ↑ In other Bharati braille alphabets, this is transcribed as short vowel e.
  6. ↑ The braille letter for ā§Ž is not attested from India.

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