Armenian Braille

Armenian Braille is either of two braille alphabets used for writing the Armenian language. The assignments of the Armenian alphabet to braille patterns is largely consistent with unified international braille, with the same punctuation, except for the comma.^[1] However, Eastern and Western Armenian are assigned braille letters based on different criteria.^[2] The conventions for Western Armenian were developed in Lebanon.

Eastern Armenian Braille 1
Western Armenian Braille 2
Common punctuation 3
References 4

Eastern Armenian Braille

Eastern Armenian Braille

Type	alphabet
Languages	Eastern Armenian
Parent systems	Braille ? Eastern Armenian Braille
Print basis	Armenian alphabet

In Eastern Armenian, braille cells are assigned international values based on the historical correspondences of the Armenian script. For this reason they closely match the Latin transliteration convention used in the table below.

Linear	Ա ա a	Բ բ b	Գ գ g	Դ դ d	Ե ե e	Զ զ z	Է է ē	Ը ը ë	Թ թ t’	Ժ ժ ž	Ի ի i	Լ լ l	Խ խ x
Braille	⠁	⠃	⠛	⠙	⠚	⠮	⠑	⠌	⠜	⠾	⠊	⠇	⠹
Linear	Ծ ծ ç	Կ կ k	Հ հ h	Ձ ձ j	Ղ ղ ġ	Ճ ճ č̣	Մ մ m	Յ յ y	Ն ն n	Շ շ s	Ո ո o	Չ չ č	Պ պ p
Braille	⠉	⠅	⠓	⠣	⠻	⠩	⠍	⠽	⠝	⠱	⠧	⠟	⠏
Linear	Ջ ջ ǰ	Ռ ռ ṙ	Ս ս s	Վ վ v	Տ տ t	Ր ր r	Ց ց c’	Ու ու u	Փ փ p’	Ք ք k’	Եվ և ev	Օ օ ò	Ֆ ֆ f
Braille	⠭	⠷^[3]	⠎	⠺	⠞	⠗	⠵^[4]	⠥	⠯	⠬	⠡	⠕	⠋

Punctuation
Linear	,	՞
Braille	⠒	⠢

Western Armenian Braille

Western Armenian Braille
Type	alphabet
Languages	Western Armenian
Parent systems	Braille ? Western Armenian Braille
Print basis	Armenian alphabet

In Western Armenian, braille cells are assigned according to a pronunciation which diverges from the historical origin of the letters. Thus what are transliterated b g d in the table below are assigned braille values as p q th, while p t č̣ k are pronounced like English b d j g and have those braille assignments.

Linear	Ա ա a	Բ բ b	Գ գ g	Դ դ d	Ե ե e	Զ զ z	Է է ē	Ը ը ë	Թ թ t’	Ժ ժ ž	Ի ի i	Լ լ l	Խ խ x
Braille	⠁	⠏	⠟	⠹	⠽	⠵	⠑	⠥	⠞	⠜	⠊	⠇	⠭
Linear	Ծ ծ ç	Կ կ k	Հ հ h	Ձ ձ j	Ղ ղ ġ	Ճ ճ č̣	Մ մ m	Յ յ y	Ն ն n	Շ շ s	Ո ո o	Չ չ č	Պ պ p
Braille	⠌	⠛	⠓	⠬	⠣	⠚	⠍	⠱	⠝	⠩	⠪	⠡	⠃
Linear	Ջ ջ ǰ	Ռ ռ ṙ	Ս ս s	Վ վ v	Տ տ t	Ր ր r	Ց ց c’	Ւ ւ w	Փ փ p’	Ք ք k’	Օ օ ò	Ֆ ֆ f
Braille	⠉	⠻	⠎	⠧	⠙	⠗	⠮	⠺	⠫	⠅	⠕	⠋

Punctuation
Linear	,	՞	’
Braille	⠠	⠦	⠄

եւ (&) is ⠯.

Common punctuation

Apart from the comma and question mark above, Eastern and Western Braille use the same punctuation.

Linear	՝	․	։	՜	« »	֊	(cap)
Braille	⠆	⠒^[5]	⠲	⠖	⠦⠀⠴	⠤	⠨

References

^ "International Meeting on Braille Uniformity". UNESCO. Retrieved 2012-04-24.
^ Unesco (2013), World Braille Usage, 3rd ed.
^ UNESCO (1990/2013) mistakenly copies this as ⠗ r. It was corrected from the chart in the box at right.
^ The chart in the box at right mistakenly copies this as ⠽ y. It was corrected from UNESCO (1990/2013).
^ This is the same as the comma in Eastern Armenian, according to UNESCO 2013. This may be an error.

Braille ⠃⠗⠇

Braille cell

Braille scripts

French-ordered scripts (see for more)	Albanian Amharic Arabic Armenian Azerbaijani Belarusian Bharati Devanagari (Hindi / Marathi / Nepali) Bengali Punjabi Sinhalese Tamil Urdu etc. Bulgarian Burmese Cambodian Cantonese Catalan Chinese (Mandarin, mainland) Czech Dutch Dzongkha (Bhutanese) English (Unified English) Esperanto Estonian Faroese Filipino French Georgian German Ghanaian Greek Guarani Hawaiian Hebrew Hungarian Icelandic Iñupiaq IPA Irish Italian Kazakh Kyrgyz Latvian Lithuanian Maltese Mongolian Māori Nigerian Northern Sami Persian Polish Portuguese Romanian Russian Samoan Scandinavian Slovak South African Spanish Taiwanese Mandarin (largely reassigned) Thai & Lao (Japanese vowels) Tibetan Turkish Ukrainian Vietnamese Welsh Yugoslav

Reordered scripts	Algerian Braille (obsolete)

Frequency-based scripts	American Braille (obsolete)

Independent scripts	Japanese Korean Two-Cell Chinese

Eight-dot scripts	Luxembourgish Kanji Gardner–Salinas braille codes (GS8)

Symbols in braille

Braille technology

Persons

Organisations

Other tactile alphabets

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Armenian Braille