Yugoslav Braille
Braille alphabets used in ex-Yugoslavia
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Yugoslav Braille is a family of closely related braille alphabets used for South Slavic languages of former Yugoslavia, namely Serbo-Croatian, Slovene and Macedonian. It is based on the unified international braille conventions, with the letters corresponding to their Latin transliterations.
- Yugoslav Braille
| Yugoslav Braille | |
|---|---|
| Script type | Alphabet
|
Print basis | Gaj's Latin alphabet Macedonian alphabet Slovene alphabet |
| Languages | Serbo-Croatian, Slovene, Macedonian |
| Related scripts | |
Parent systems | Braille
|
Alphabet
| è | ȅ | é | ȇ | |
| Braille |  |  |  |  |
Punctuation
Unesco reports that Croatian Braille swaps the Serbian quotation marks for parentheses and the period/full stop for the apostrophe, but it's possible that this is due to a copy error; the table below follows Croatian Wikipedia, which agrees with Serbian, for these characters.[1] There is less punctuation reported for Slovene and Macedonian Braille, but what there is matches Serbian conventions.
Blank cells in the tables are unattested.
Single punctuation:
Paired punctuation:
Formatting
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| (num.) | (end num.) |
(Caps) | (CAPS) | (l.c.) | (emph.) | (super- script) |
The superscript is reported for Croatian Braille; in Serbian Braille, ⠌ is used for the virgule /. In Slovene Braille, the emphasis (bold/italic) marker ⠸ is reported to be an abbreviation sign.
Croatian Wikipedia states that ⠠ is used for capital letters.