Catalan Braille
{{Short description|Braille alphabet of the Catalan language}}
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| languages = Catalan
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Catalan Braille is the braille alphabet of the Catalan language.
It is very close to French Braille: it uses the 26 letters of the basic braille alphabet, plus several additional letters for ç and what are, in print, vowel letters with diacritics; these differ from their French values only in the need to accommodate the Catalan acute accent: ú, ó, í for what are in French Braille ù, œ, ì :
:
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|{{Braille cell|type=image|ç}} |{{Braille cell|type=image|à}} |{{Braille cell|type=image|é}} |{{Braille cell|type=image|è}} |{{Braille cell|type=image|ì}} |{{Braille cell|type=image|ï}} |{{Braille cell|type=image|œ}} |{{Braille cell|type=image|ò}} |{{Braille cell|type=image|ù}} |{{Braille cell|type=image|ü}} |
Print digraphs are written as digraphs in braille as well.
Punctuation
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|{{Braille cell|type=image|5}} |{{Braille cell|type=image|2}} |{{Braille cell|type=image|256}} |{{Braille cell|type=image|26}} |{{Braille cell|type=image|235}} |{{Braille cell|type=image|3}} |{{Braille cell|type=image|23}} |{{Braille cell|type=image|36}} |{{Braille cell|type=image|36|36}} |{{Braille cell|type=image|3|3|3}} |
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| middot | , | . | ? | ! | ' | ; | - | — | ... |
The middot is used to distinguish double-el {{angbr|l·l}}, {{bc|l|5|l}}, from the digraph {{angbr|ll}}, {{bc|l|l}}.
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|{{Braille cell|type=image|356}}...{{Braille cell|type=image|236}} |{{Braille cell|type=image|126}}...{{Braille cell|type=image|345}} |
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| ( ... ) |
Formatting
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|{{Braille cell|type=image|#}} |{{Braille cell|type=image|46}} |
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| (digit) | (caps) |
The capital sign needs to be repeated for each letter of an initialism, so ACIC is {{bc|46|a|46|c|46|i|46|c}}.
See also
- [http://lexicografia.blogspot.com/2011/10/abecedari-braille-de-1931.html Abecedari Braille de 1931], a 1931 alphabet with different letter assignments and punctuation, including dropped digits for ordinal numbers.
- [http://www.webacic.cat/maletabraille/recursos/alfabet_braille_anvers.pdf Alfabet Braille], a chart from the Associació Catalana per a la Integració del Cec with some dubious letter assignments, such as the loss of a distinct acute accent and the use of the colon for {{angbr|ï}}.
References
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- UNESCO (2013) [http://www.pharmabraille.com/LiteratureRetrieve.aspx?ID=122064 World Braille Usage] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140908010540/http://www.pharmabraille.com/LiteratureRetrieve.aspx?ID=122064 |date=2014-09-08 }}, 3rd edition.
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