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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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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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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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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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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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 This superseded...
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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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JBI International, formerly the Jewish Braille Institute, is an international non-profit organization created to assist visually impaired and reading...
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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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Esperanto orthography (redirect from Esperanto alphabet)
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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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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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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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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they decided on the Deseret alphabet, the attention of the board of regents was mostly focused on Pitman style alphabets, and in April 1847 Brigham Young...
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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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Kannada script (redirect from Kannada alphabet)
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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Frank Haven Hall (redirect from Hall Braille Writer)
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 orthography (redirect from French alphabet)
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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Kyrgyz language (redirect from History of the Kyrgyz language)
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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Devanagari (redirect from Devangari alphabet)
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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Organisation internationale de la Francophonie (redirect from International Organization of la Francophonie)
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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Sinhala script (redirect from Singhala alphabet)
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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Visual impairment (redirect from Loss of sight)
currency tactile feature is a system of raised dots in one corner, based on braille cells but not standard braille. It is also possible to fold notes in...
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World Book Encyclopedia (redirect from World Book's Animals of the World)
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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