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Similarbraille conventions are used for three languages of India and Nepal that in print are written inDevanagari script:Hindi,Marathi, andNepali. These are part of a family of related braille alphabets known asBharati Braille. There are apparently some differences between the Nepali braille alphabet of India and that of Nepal.

Although basically alphabetic, Devanagari Braille retains one aspect of Indianabugidas, in that the default vowela is not written unless it occurs at the beginning of a word or before a vowel. For example, braille⠅ (the consonantK) renders printकka, and braille⠹ (TH), printथtha. To indicate that a consonant is not followed by a vowel (as when followed by another consonant, or at the end of a syllable), ahalant (vowel-cancelling) prefix is used:⠈⠅ (∅–K) isक्k, and⠈⠹ (∅–TH) isथ्th. (When writing in Hindi, thehalant is generally omitted at the end of a word, following the convention in print.) However, unlike in an abugida, there are no vowel diacritics in Devanagari Braille: Vowels are written with full letters following the consonant regardless of their order in print. For example, in print the voweli is prefixed to a consonant in a reduced diacritic form,किki, but in braille it follows in its full form:⠅⠊ (K–I), equivalent to writing⟨कइ⟩ forki in print. Thusक्लिकklika is written in braille as⠈⠅⠇⠊⠅ (∅–K–L–I–K). The one time when a non-initiala is written in braille is when it is followed by another vowel. In this environment thea must be written to indicate that it exists, as otherwise the subsequent vowel will be read as following the consonant immediately. Thus a true⟨कइ⟩kai in print is rendered in braille as⠅⠁⠊ (K–A–I).

Apart fromkṣ andjñ, which each have their own braille letter, Devanagari Braille does not handleconjuncts. Print conjuncts are rendered instead with thehalant in braille. Devanagari braille is thus equivalent to Grade-1 English braille, though there are plans to extend it to conjuncts.

Print	अ	आ	इ	ई	उ	ऊ	ऎ	ए	ऐ	ऒ	ओ	औ
ISO	a	ā	i	ī	u	ū	e	ē	ai	o	ō	au
Braille

Print	क	ख	ग	घ	ङ	च	छ	ज	झ	ञ
ISO	k	kh	g	gh	ṅ	ch	chh	j	jh	ñ
Braille

Print	ट	ठ	ड	ढ	ण	त	थ	द	ध	न
ISO	ṭ	ṭh	ḍ	ḍh	ṇ	t	th	d	dh	n
Braille

Print	प	फ	ब	भ	म	य	र	ल	व
ISO	p	ph	b	bh	m	y	r	l	v
Braille

Print	श	ष	स	ह	ळ[1]	क्ष	ज्ञ	ड़	फ़	ज़
ISO	ś	ṣ	s	h	ḷ	kṣ	jñ	ṛ	f	z
Braille

Not all of the letters used forSanskrit are reported forNepali inNepal.

Diacritic (onक)	क्		कं		कः		कँ		कऽ
	Halant		Anusvara		Visarga		Candrabindu		Avagraha
Braille

The Bharati point,⠐, is used to derive the syllabic consonants. Long syllabic consonants are prefixed by point-6, which also transcribes the visarga.

Print	ऋ		ॠ		ऌ		ॡ		ढ़[2]
ISO	r̥		r̥̄		l̥		l̥̄		ṛh
Braille

The pointing diacritic is also used for consonants that are derived with a point in print. Most of these consonants were introduced fromPersian:

Print	क़	ख़	ग़	श़       or      झ़
ISO	qa	xa	ġa	ža
Braille				or

There are irregularities, however.फ़f andज़z, which are found in both Persian and English loans, are transcribed withEnglish Braille (and international)⠋ and⠵, as shown in the chart in the previous section, while the internal allophonic developments ofड़ṛ andढ़ṛh are respectively an independent letter⠻ in braille and a derivation from that letter rather than from the base letter in print.

This is also where, at least according to UNESCO (2013), Hindi Braille and Indian Urdu Braille diverge.Urdu Braille has several additional derivations along these lines, which are not possible in print Devanagari. In Urdu Braille,⠭ and⠟ are assigned their English/international values ofx andq, replacing⠐⠅ and⠐⠨. Also,⠱jñ is used forحḥ, and⠷ (not found in Devanagari Braille) is used forعʿ, a role played by the letterअ in Devanagari Urdu but not found in Hindi.

Braille as used in Nepal has some mostly minor differences from that used for Nepali in India. This may extend to punctuation. The asterisk in Nepal,⠐⠔, differs from the⠔⠔ used in India, unless this is a copy error in UNESCO (2013). Single quotation marks and additional brackets are noted for Nepal but not for India:

Print	‘ ... ’	[ ... ]	{ ... }
Braille	...	...	...

These differ from the same punctuation inBangladesh.

The following is the sample text in theHindi article, of Article 1 of theUniversal Declaration of Human Rights:

⠁⠝⠥⠈⠉⠡⠑⠙⠀⠼⠁⠀⠤⠤⠀⠎⠘⠔⠀⠍⠝⠥⠈⠯⠽⠕⠰⠀⠅⠕⠀⠛⠪⠗⠧⠀⠪⠗⠀⠁⠮⠊⠅⠜⠗⠕⠰⠀⠅⠑⠀⠍⠜⠈⠍⠇⠑⠀⠍⠑⠰⠀⠚⠈⠝⠍⠚⠜⠞⠀⠈⠎⠧⠞⠈⠝⠈⠞⠗⠞⠜⠀⠪⠗⠀⠎⠍⠜⠈⠝⠞⠜⠀⠈⠏⠗⠜⠈⠏⠞⠀⠓⠌⠰⠲

⠥⠈⠝⠓⠑⠰⠀⠃⠥⠈⠙⠮⠊⠀⠪⠗⠀⠁⠈⠝⠞⠗⠜⠈⠞⠍⠜⠀⠅⠔⠀⠙⠑⠝⠀⠈⠏⠗⠜⠈⠏⠞⠀⠓⠌⠀⠪⠗⠀⠏⠗⠈⠎⠏⠗⠀⠥⠈⠝⠓⠑⠰⠀⠘⠜⠔⠉⠜⠗⠑⠀⠅⠑⠀⠘⠜⠧⠀⠎⠑⠀⠃⠈⠗⠞⠜⠧⠀⠅⠈⠗⠝⠜⠀⠉⠜⠓⠊⠽⠑⠲⠀

अनुच्छेद १ — सभी मनुष्यों को गौरव और अधिकारों के मामले में जन्मजात स्वतन्त्रता और समानता प्राप्त हैं।

उन्हें बुद्धि और अन्तरात्मा की देन प्राप्त है और परस्पर उन्हें भाईचारे के भाव से बर्ताव करना चाहिये।

Anucched 1 — Sabhī manuṣyoṃ ko gaurav aur adhikāroṃ ke māmle meṃ janmajāt svatantratā aur samāntā prāpt haiṃ.

Unheṃ buddhi aur antarātmā kī den prāpt hai aur paraspar unheṃ bhāīcāre ke bhāv se bartāv karnā cāhiye.

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