| Vietnamese Braille | |
|---|---|
| Script type | Alphabet |
Print basis | Vietnamese alphabet |
| Languages | Vietnamese |
| Related scripts | |
Parent systems | Braille
|
Vietnamese Braille is thebraille alphabet used for theVietnamese language. It is very close toFrench Braille (and thus to a lesser degree toEnglish Braille), but with the addition of tone letters. Vietnamese Braille is known in Vietnamese aschữ nổi, literally "raised letters", while electronic braille displays are calledmàn hình chữ nổi.
Apart fromđ (which is brailled as⠮[1] and the addition of five tone letters, the Vietnamese Braille alphabet is nearly identical toFrench Braille: the only other difference is the substitution of Vietnameseư ơ for Frenchü œ, and the dropping of those letters which are not needed in Vietnamese. However, because of the tone letters, the design is different: Vietnamese Braille has separate letters for vowels and tones, so the French Braille letters foré à è ù are not used; they are written instead as tone ◌́ or ◌̀ plus the vowelsa e u.
a | b | c | d | e | g | h | i | ||||
k | l | m | n | o | p | q | r | s | t | (caps) | |
u | v | x | y | đ | (num) | ||||||
â | ê | ô | ư | ơ | ă | ||||||
, | ; | : | . | ◌̉ | ◌́ | ◌̀ | |||||
◌̃ | ◌̣ | ||||||||||
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 0 | (space) | |
For example,
| Màn | hình | chữ | nổi. |
| cap–m–◌̀–a–n | h–◌̀–i–n–h | c–h–◌̃–ư | n–◌̉–ô–i–stop |
, | ; | : | . | “...” | ? | ! | ... | - | * | ||||
(...) | [...] OR {...} | / | |||||||||||