Polish Braille
Braille alphabet of the Polish language
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Polish Braille (alfabet Braille'a) is a braille alphabet for writing the Polish language. It is based on international braille conventions, with the following extensions:[1]
| Polish Braille | |
|---|---|
| Script type | alphabet
|
Print basis | Polish alphabet |
| Languages | Polish |
| Related scripts | |
Parent systems | Braille
|
That is, for letters of the first and second decade of the braille script (a, c, e, l, n, s), a diacritic is written as dot 6, and any dot 3 is removed (or, equivalently, is moved to position 6)—that is, the base letter is moved to the fourth decade. For letters of the third decade (u, y, z), which already have a dot 6, the derivation is a mirror image. Ó is derived from u, which is how it is pronounced (also, the mirror image of o is already taken). Several of these conventions are used in Lithuanian Braille.
History
Some form of a Braille alphabet had been adapted to the Polish language by 1957.[2]
Alphabet
Punctuation
Formatting
 (cap) |
 (l.c.) |
 (emph.) |
External links
- Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine (a detailed account of typesetting Polish Braille)
- Braille Translator online (Conversion of typed text on the Braille characters, full of Polish notation.)