• The goal of braille uniformity is to unify the braille alphabets of the world as much as possible, so that literacy in one braille alphabet readily transfers...
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    called the braille cell. The number and arrangement of these dots distinguishes one character from another. Since the various braille alphabets originated...
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  • Armenian Braille is either of two braille alphabets used for writing the Armenian language. The assignments of the Armenian alphabet to braille patterns...
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  • course of time, five different braille alphabets have been in use. One of these early alphabets was based on the pronunciation of Dutch. It is still used for...
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    Hebrew Braille (Hebrew: ברייל עברי) is the braille alphabet for Hebrew. The International Hebrew Braille Code is widely used. It was devised in the 1930s...
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    Braille characters. English Braille, also known as Grade 2 Braille, is the braille alphabet used for English. It consists of around 250 letters (phonograms)...
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    boxes, or other symbols instead of phonetic symbols. The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) is an alphabetic system of phonetic notation based primarily...
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    Louis Braille (/breɪl/ brayl; French: [lwi bʁɑj]; 4 January 1809 – 6 January 1852) was a French educator and the inventor of a reading and writing system...
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  • English Braille Code (UEBC, formerly UBC, now usually simply UEB) is an English language Braille code standard, developed to encompass the wide variety of literary...
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  • is the current official alphabet and the latest in a series of distinct alphabets used in different eras. The Turkish alphabet has been the model for the...
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    This article contains phonetic transcriptions in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA. For...
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  • Western Slavic Latin alphabets but uses circumflexes instead of carons for the letters ĉ, ĝ, ĥ, ĵ, and ŝ. Also, the non-Slavic bases of the letters ĝ and...
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    further influenced alphabets of Romani languages that are spoken in Southeast Europe, namely Vlax and Balkan Romani. The alphabet consists of thirty upper and...
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  • details of information. The standards listed may be formal or informal and some might not be recognised by all governments or organizations. Braille International...
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  • Latin, and Cyrillic alphabets. North Azerbaijani, the official language of Republic of Azerbaijan, is written in a modified Latin alphabet. This superseded...
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  • JBI International, formerly the Jewish Braille Institute, is an international non-profit organization created to assist visually impaired and reading...
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    U
    letter and the fifth vowel letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet and the alphabets of other western European languages and...
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    with the degree of uniformity seen in languages such as Japanese or Sanskrit. The Bengali alphabet has often been included with the group of Brahmic scripts...
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  • catalogs that do not support non-Latin alphabets. Latter Day Saint movement portal International Phonetic Alphabet Book of Mormon (PDF). Salt Lake City: Intellectual...
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  • Albanian alphabet is the result of long evolution. Before the creation of the unified alphabet, Albanian was written in several different alphabets, with...
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    Cornish, Breton, Ukrainian, Japanese, Latynka, and Belarusian Łacinka alphabets. Formerly ch was also considered a separate letter for collation purposes...
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    the Braille cell. He also worked on international uniformity of the braille alphabets, and the development of typesetting systems. In the spring of 1910...
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  • French alphabet uses a number of diacritics, including the circumflex, diaeresis, acute, and grave accents, as well as ligatures. A system of braille has...
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    languages, such as Tulu, Konkani, Kodava, Beary and Sanketi also use alphabets based on the Kannada script. The Kannada and Telugu scripts share very...
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    the Vedic study of sound, focusing on the letters of the Sanskrit alphabet Taylor, Isaac (1883). History of the Alphabet: Aryan Alphabets, Part 2. Kegan...
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    pioneer in terms of the recognition of cultural diversity and dialogue of cultures. It must find ways of confronting the trend towards uniformity that accompanies...
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    these scripts. Differences Sinhala alphabet differs from other Indo-Aryan alphabets in that it contains a pair of vowel sounds (U+0DD0 and U+0DD1 in the...
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    alphabet was used for many minority languages in the USSR, including Kyrgyz. There have been attempts after 1990 to introduce other Latin alphabets which...
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  • administration. In 1937, World Book published its first international edition. In 1962, World Book produced a braille edition, which filled 145 volumes and nearly...
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  • Braille characters ISO/TR 11548-1:2001 Part 1: General guidelines for Braille identifiers and shift marks ISO/TR 11548-2:2001 Part 2: Latin alphabet based...
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