Bengali Braille

Summary

Bengali Braille is used for the Bengali language. According to UNESCO (2013),[1] there are slight different braille conventions for Bengali language in India, where the generic Bharati Braille is followed, and in Bangladesh. This article compares Bengali Braille in the two countries.

Bengali Braille
বাংলা ব্রেইল
Bangla Breil
Script type
Print basis
Bengali alphabet
LanguagesBengali
Related scripts
Parent systems

Bengali Braille chart edit

Vowel Alphabets edit

Print
Bangladesh                        -[2]
India   

Consonant Alphabets edit

Print
Bangladesh                    
India    
Print
Bangladesh
&
India
                   
Print
Bangladesh                
India  
Print ক্ষ জ্ঞ ড় ঢ় য়[3]
Bangladesh                     
India    (?)[4]

Codas (Script modifiers) edit

Print
 ্  ং  ঃ  ঁ
Bangladesh
&
India
           

Numerals edit

Bengali numerals
Bangladesh
&
India
                             

Punctuation marks edit

Print , ; : ? !
Bangladesh
&
India
              
Print ‘ ... ’ [ ... ] / *
Bangladesh
&
India
  ...     ...        

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ World Braille Usage Archived 2014-09-08 at the Wayback Machine, UNESCO, 2013
  2. ^ The braille letter for is not attested from Bangladesh. (It is an obsolete vowel in modern Bengali language.)
  3. ^ In other Bharati braille alphabets, this is transcribed as short vowel e.
  4. ^ The braille letter for is not attested from India.