Geʽez Braille Amharic Braille
Script type	alphabet
Print basis	Geʽez script
Languages	Amharic; possibly alsoTigrinya,Tigre, etc.
Related scripts
Parent systems	Braille English Braille Geʽez Braille

Geʽez Braille is a collection ofbraille alphabets for theEthiopian languages that are written inGeʽez script in print.^{[citation needed]} Letter values are mostly in line withinternational usage. At leastAmharic is supported; perhaps the extended letters needed forTigrinya,Tigre and possibly other Ethiopian languages are supported as well, but if so that is not recorded in available references.

Amharic Braille may be anabugida like the printGeʽez script, but the inherent vowel is epentheticə/ɨ/ rather thana/ɐ/. The same letter is used for syllables ending in the vowelə as for the bare consonant. Other syllables are written with this letter plus a second letter for the vowel. Thus the system is very close to a truealphabet, with any inherentə vowel often but evidently not always predictable.

The photograph of the syllabic chart at right shows a blank cell⟨⠀⟩ being used for the inherent vowelə. That is perhaps an artefact of the presentation; UNESCO (2013) shows that is simply not written.^[1]

Amharic Braille alphabet

-ä	-u	-i	-a	-e	-o	-wa
h ሀ	l ለ	ḥ ሐ	m መ	ś ሠ	r ረ	s ሰ
š ሸ	ḳ ቀ	b በ	t ተ	č ቸ	ḫ ኀ	n ነ
ñ ኘ	ʾ አ	k ከ	x ኸ	w ወ	ʿ ዐ	z ዘ
ž ዠ	y የ	d ደ	ǧ ጀ	g ገ	ṭ ጠ	č̣ ጨ
p̣ ጰ	ṣ ጸ	ṣ́ ፀ	f ፈ	p ፐ	v ቨ

⟨ə⟩ is not the default vowel in print Amharic, which is instead⟨ä⟩ (braille⠢). For most consonants,a is the only vowel that can occur in aCw- syllable, so-wa has its own letter:⠭.CwV andCyV syllables other than⠭-wa are written with medial⠺w and⠽y:

Note that-wə is written⠺⠥, as if it were-wu, a combination that does not occur in print.

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Ethiopic digits do not follow the international pattern. They are alsocircumfixed with⠁ ...⠆:

Western numbers are marked with⠼ as in other braille alphabets.

Native punctuation is as follows:

Print	፡	።	፣	፤	፦	፧	᎐
Braille

The last isyizet, one of several interlinear tone marks.

There is also Western punctuation:

Print	?	!	...	-	—	/	*
Braille

Print	« ... »	‹ ... ›	( ... )	[ ... ]
Braille	...	...	...	...

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