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Translingual
The 41st character of the braille script
Etymology
Invented by Louis Braille, braille cells were arranged in numerical order and assigned to letters of the French alphabet. Most braille alphabets follow this assignment for the 26 letters of the basic Latin alphabet, or for the equivalents of those letters in a non-Latin script.
The first ten braille letters are ⠁⠃⠉⠙⠑⠋⠛⠓⠊⠚, usually assigned to the Latin letters a–j. The next ten repeat that pattern with the addition of a dot at the lower left, the third ten with two dots on the bottom, and the fourth with a dot on the bottom right. The fifth decade is like the first, but shifted downward. Many languages which use braille letters beyond the basic 26 for simple letters in their script follow an approximation of the English values for the additional letters.
Punctuation mark
⠂
- (Braille) the comma (,)
- (Thai Braille) the reduplication mark, ๆ
- (Bharati braille) avagraha
Usage notes
Letter
⠂
Usage notes
- (English Braille) Cannot appear at the beginning or end of a word.
Symbol
⠂
- (English Braille) A prefix marking non-Latin letters. For example:
- α ⠂⠁, β ⠂⠃, γ ⠂⠛, δ ⠂⠙, ε ⠂⠑, ζ ⠂⠵, η ⠂⠱, θ ⠂⠹, ι ⠂⠊, κ ⠂⠅, λ ⠂⠇, μ ⠂⠍, ν ⠂⠝, ξ ⠂⠭, ο ⠂⠕, π ⠂⠏, ρ ⠂⠗, σ ⠂⠎, τ ⠂⠞, υ ⠂⠥, φ ⠂⠋, χ ⠂⠯, ψ ⠂⠽, ω ⠂⠺
Usage notes
- This is read as a comma when followed by a space, as a non-Latin-script indicator when not. The script is determined by context. The examples above would only be Greek letters if that were established.
- Abolished in Unified English Braille.