Bengali Braille

Bengali Braille is used for the Bengali and Assamese languages. According to UNESCO (2013),[1] there are slight different braille conventions for Bengali language in Bangladesh and India, this article compares Bengali Braille in the two countries.

Bengali Braille
বাংলা ব্রেইল
Bangla Braille
Script type
Print basis
Bengali alphabet
LanguagesBengali, Assamese language
Related scripts
Parent systems

Bengali Braille chart

Vowel Alphabets
Print অআইঈউঊএঐওঔঋঌ
Bangladesh -[2]
India

Consonant Alphabets
Print কখগঘঙচছজঝঞ
Bangladesh
India
Print টঠডঢণতথদধন
Bangladesh
&
India
Print পফবভমযর / ৰ[3]লৱ[4]
Bangladesh -
India
Print শষসহক্ষজ্ঞড়ঢ়য়[5]ৎ
Bangladesh
India (?)[6]

Codas (Script modifiers)
Print
 ্ ং ঃ ঁঽ।
Bangladesh
&
India

Numerals
Bengali numerals ১২৩৪৫৬৭৮৯০
Bangladesh
&
India

Punctuation marks
Print , ; : ? !-—
Bangladesh
&
India
Print ‘ ... ’[ ... ]/*
Bangladesh
&
India

See also

References
  1. World Braille Usage Archived 2014-09-08 at the Wayback Machine, UNESCO, 2013
  2. The braille letter for ঌ is not attested from Bangladesh. (It is an obsolete vowel in modern Bengali language.)
  3. "র" for Bengali in Bangladesh and India and "ৰ" for Assamese in India only.
  4. This alphabet "ৱ" is used in Assamese in India. (Similar to the "ভ" of Bangladesh standard.)
  5. In other Bharati braille alphabets, this is transcribed as short vowel e.
  6. The braille letter for ৎ is not attested from India.
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