Philippine Braille

Philippine Braille Filipino Braille
Type	alphabet
Languages	Tagalog, Ilocano, Cebuano, Hiligaynon, Bicol
Parent systems	Braille English Braille Philippine Braille
Print basis	Abakada alphabet / Filipino alphabet

Philippine Braille, or Filipino Braille, is the braille alphabet of the Philippines. Besides Filipino (Tagalog), essentially the same alphabet is used for Ilocano, Cebuano, Hiligaynon, and Bicol (UNESCO 2013).^[1]

Philippine Braille is based on the 26 letters of the basic braille alphabet used for Grade-1 English Braille, so the print digraph ng is written as a digraph ⠝⠛ in braille as well. The print letter ñ is rendered with the generic accent point, ⠈⠝. These are considered part of the alphabet, which is therefore,

a	b	c	d	e	f	g	h	i	j
k	l	m	n	ñ		ng		o	p
q	r	s	t	u	v	w	x	y	z

Numbers and punctuation are as in traditional English Braille, though the virgule / is ⠸⠌ as in Unified English Braille.

References

^ Ethnologue 17 reports braille usage for Kapampangan, Pangasinan, Waray-Waray, and Chavacano as well. They presumably use the same conventions as Filipino.

UNESCO (2013) World Braille Usage, 3rd edition.

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 French Georgian German Ghanaian Greek Guarani Hawaiian Hebrew Hungarian Icelandic Inuktitut (reassigned vowels) Iñupiaq IPA Irish Italian Kazakh Kyrgyz Latvian Lithuanian Maltese Mongolian Māori Nigerian Northern Sami Persian Philippine Polish Portuguese Romanian Russian Samoan Scandinavian Slovak South African Spanish Tatar 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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Philippine Braille