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Armenian Braille is either of two braille alphabets used for writing the Armenian language. The assignments of the Armenian alphabet to braille patterns is largely consistent with unified international braille, with the same punctuation, except for the comma. However, Eastern and Western Armenian are assigned braille letters based on different criteria. The conventions for Western Armenian were developed in Lebanon.

Eastern Armenian Braille

Eastern Armenian Braille
Script type	alphabet
Print basis	Armenian alphabet
Languages	Eastern Armenian
Related scripts
Parent systems	Braille ? Eastern Armenian Braille

In Eastern Armenian, braille cells are assigned international values based on the historical correspondences of the Armenian script. For this reason they closely match the Latin transliteration convention used in the table below.

Western Armenian Braille

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In Western Armenian, braille cells are assigned according to a pronunciation which diverges from the historical origin of the letters. Thus what are transliterated b g d in the table below are assigned braille values as p q th, while p t č̣ k are pronounced like English b d j g and have those braille assignments.

Եւ (և) is ⠯.

Common punctuation

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Apart from the comma and question mark above, Eastern and Western Braille use the same punctuation.

See also

• Moon type is a simplification of the Latin alphabet for embossing. An adaptation for Armenian-reading blind people has been proposed.

References

1. "International Meeting on Braille Uniformity" (PDF). UNESCO. Retrieved 2012-04-24.
2. Unesco (2013), World Braille Usage, 3rd ed.
3. UNESCO (1990/2013) mistakenly copies this as ⠗ r. It was corrected from the chart in the box at right.
4. The chart in the box at right mistakenly copies this as ⠽ y. It was corrected from UNESCO (1990/2013).
5. This is the same as the comma in Eastern Armenian, according to UNESCO 2013. This may be an error.

v t e Armenian language
Origin	Armenian hypothesis Graeco-Armenian Armeno-Aryan
History	Proto-Armenian Classical Armenian (c. 405–1100) Middle Armenian (c. 1100–1700) Modern Armenian (from c. 1700) History of the Armenian alphabet
Alphabet	Orthography Classical Reformed Braille Romanization Numerals
Grammar	Verb table Eastern Western
Dialects	Standardized Western Eastern Regional dialects Homshetsi Iranian Armenian Kakavaberd Karabakh Karin Kharberd–Yerznka Mush Shabin–Karahisar Yerevan Zok
Literature	List of writers
Promotion and study	Armenian National Academy of Sciences Armenian studies
Related topics	Proverbs
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• French-ordered braille alphabets
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