Punjabi Braille is thebraille alphabet used in India forPunjabi. It is one of theBharati braille alphabets, and largely conforms to the letter values of the other Bharati alphabets.[1]
The alphabet is as follows: Vowel letters are used rather than diacritics, and they occur after consonants in their spoken order.[2] For orthographic conventions, seeBharati Braille.
The Bharati point,⠐, is only used to derive one consonant, ਗ਼ġa/ɣə/, from the base consonant letter ਗga/ɡə/. This system also operates inHindi Braille andIndian Urdu Braille, but the Punjabi Braille alphabet is closer to Indian Urdu, as all other consonants that are pointed in print, such as ਖ਼xa, are rendered with dedicated letters in braille based oninternational values. The six pointed letters in the Gurmukhi script have the following equivalents in braille:
^Unesco (2013) also has⠐⠻ for ੜ੍ਹṛh, but this is an apparent copy error: ੜ੍ਹ is a sequenceṛ-h, not the equivalent of the single letterṛh in other Indic scripts.
