Estonian Braille

Summary

Estonian Braille is the braille alphabet of the Estonian language.[1]

Estonian Braille
Script type
alphabet
Print basis
Estonian alphabet
LanguagesEstonian
Related scripts
Parent systems

Alphabet edit

Estonian Braille uses the international (read French) norms for the letters ä ö ü. Š and ž are mirror-images of s and z, a strategy found in other alphabets. Õ is the mirror-image of ä, as the mirror-image of o is used for ö.

 
a
 
b
 
d
 
e
 
f
 
g
 
h
 
i
 
j
 
k
 
l
 
m
 
n
 
o
 
p
 
r
 
s
 
š
 
z
 
ž
 
t
 
u
 
v
 
õ
 
ä
 
ö
 
ü

When c q w x y are used in foreign names, they have their normal values of .

Punctuation edit

Punctuation is nearly identical to that of Finnish Braille.

 
,
 
.
 
'
 
 ?
 
 !
 
 ;
 
 :
 
-
 
*
 
/
 ... 
“ ... ”
 ... 
( ... )
 ... 
[ ... ]

Formatting edit

 
(digit)
 
(caps)
 
(italics)
 
(bold)

References edit

  1. ^ UNESCO (2013) World Braille Usage Archived 2014-09-08 at the Wayback Machine, 3rd edition. (thanks, VanIsaac)