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Spanish Braille is thebraille alphabet ofSpanish andGalician. It is very close toFrench Braille, with the addition of a letter forñ, slight modification of the accented letters and some differences in punctuation. Further conventions have been unified by the Latin American Blind Union, but differences with Spain^{[citation needed]} remain.

The French Braille letters for vowels with a grave accent,à è ù, are used in Spanish Braille for vowels with an acute accent,á é ú. In addition, French⠻ï is reassigned to Spanishñ. Thus, in numerical order, the letters are:

a	b	c	d	e	f	g	h	i	j	k
l	m	n	o	p	q	r	s	t	u	v
x	y	z	á	é	ú	ñ	ü	w	í	ó

At one point, French⠺w was apparently used for Spanishü, reflecting its pronunciation, and French⠹ô (a rotatedv) for Spanishw, which is only found in foreign words.^[1]

Digits are the first ten letters of the alphabet, and are marked by⠼, as inEnglish Braille.

Single punctuation:

,	.[2]	'	;	:	*	-	—	/

(The same character is used for a full stop and for an apostrophe, as inPortuguese Braille. Spanish does not use the apostrophe in standard writing, and in Portuguese it is only present in a few fixed phrases.)

Paired punctuation:

...	...	...	...	...	...	...
¿ ... ?	¡ ... !	(outer quotes)[3]	(inner quotes)[3]	( ... )	[ ... ]	{ ... }

		...
(digit)	(caps)	(start & stop emph.)

'Emphasis' may be bold or italic in print.

SeePortuguese Braille for a more complete account, much of which is likely to apply to Spanish Braille.

The full Spanish Braille alphabet is used forGalician as well. The letter⠻ forñ is shared withBasque Braille (which has no additional letters) and withGuarani Braille (which does). It is not, however, used for the languages of the Philippines, which instead use an accent dot ofEnglish Braille withn,⠈⠝, forñ. (Seebasic braille.)

Punctuation for Galician and Basque Braille is the same as that of Spanish Braille.

• UNESCO (2013)World Braille Usage, 3rd edition.
• Proel
• FBUArchived 2017-10-27 at theWayback Machine
• 1951 UNESCO report on standardizing Spanish and Portuguese Braille

• French-ordered braille alphabets
• Spanish language

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