Yugoslav Braille

Yugoslav Braille is a family of closely related braille alphabets used for South Slavic languages of former Yugoslavia, namely Serbo-Croatian, Slovene and Macedonian. It is based on the unified international braille conventions, with the letters corresponding to their Latin transliterations.

Alphabet

Braille
Serbian	а	б	ц	ћ	ч	д	ђ	џ	-	е	ф	г	-
Croatian	a	b	c	ć	č	d	đ	dž	-	e	f	g	-
Macedonian	а	б	ц	-	ч	д	-	џ	ѕ	е	ф	г	ѓ
Slovene	a	b	c	-	č	d	-	-	-	e	f	g	-
Braille
Serbian	х	и	ј	к	-	л	љ	м	н	њ	о	п
Croatian	h	i	j	k	-	l	lj	m	n	nj	o	p
Macedonian	х	и	ј	к	ќ	л	љ	м	н	њ	о	п
Slovene	h	i	j	k	-	l	-	m	n	-	o	p
Braille
Serbian	-	р	с	ш	т	у	в	-	-	-	з	ж
Croatian	-	r	s	š	t	u	v	-	-	-	z	ž
Macedonian	-	р	с	ш	т	у	в	-	-	-	з	ж
Slovene	-	r	s	š	t	u	v	-	-	-	z	ž

Accents
(print accents illustrated on the letter e)

Print	è	ȅ	é	ȇ
Braille

Punctuation

Unesco reports that Croatian Braille swaps the Serbian quotation marks for parentheses and the period/full stop for the apostrophe, but it's possible that this is due to a copy error; the table below follows Croatian Wikipedia, which agrees with Serbian, for these characters.^[1] There is less punctuation reported for Slovene and Macedonian Braille, but what there is matches Serbian conventions.

Blank cells in the tables are unattested.

Single punctuation:

Print	,	.[1]	?	!	'[1]	;	:	*	-	_	/	&	§ and ¶
Croatian
Serbian

Paired punctuation:

Print	“…”[1]	‘…’	(…)[1]	[…]	{…}
Croatian	...	...	...	...
Serbian		...		...	...

Formatting

(num.)	(end num.)	(Caps)	(CAPS)	(l.c.)	(emph.)	(super- script)

The superscript is reported for Croatian Braille; in Serbian Braille, ⠌ is used for the virgule /. In Slovene Braille, the emphasis (bold/italic) marker ⠸ is reported to be an abbreviation sign.

Croatian Wikipedia states that ⠠ is used for capital letters.

References

This page was last edited on 1 June 2023, at 22:01