Turkish Braille

Turkish Braille (kabartma yazı) is the braille alphabet of the Turkish language.

Alphabet[edit]

Turkish Braille follows international usage. The vowels with diacritics, ö and ü, have their French/German forms, whereas the consonants with diacritics, ç, ğ, and ş, have the forms of the nearest English approximations, ch, gh, and sh. Dotless i is derived by shifting down.^[1][2][3]

a	b	c	ç	d	e	f	g	ğ	h
ı	i	j	k	l	m	n	o	ö	p
r	s	ş	t	u	ü	v	y	z

The accent point, ⠈, is used for â, î, û. Point ⠠ is used for capitals.^[3]

Punctuation[edit]

Punctuation and arithmetical signs are as follows:^[3]

◌̂	'	,	;	:	.[4]	!	?	-	(space)
... ( ... )			... “ ... ”			(quote dash)		(poetry)
*		/		+		−		=

⠜⠜ is perhaps related to ⠜ in Irish Braille, which marks a new line of verse.

For quotations, the dash — is used differently from inverted commas “...”, for example when transcribing short turns in dialog.

Extensions to other languages[edit]

Azeri (Azerbaijani) Braille adds the letters x and q with their international forms ⠭ and ⠟. These letters are used in Azeri Braille, or in the case of Turkish Braille, in foreign words. w is only used for foreign words in both Turkish and Azeri Braille. Azeri Braille uses the accent mark ⠈ to derive print ə (formerly ä) from a.^{[5][unreliable source?]}

ə

x

q

w

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