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Belarusian Braille is the braille alphabet of the Belarusian language. It is based on Russian Braille, with a couple additional letters found in the print Belarusian alphabet.

Alphabet

Belarusian does not use all the letters of the Russian alphabet, and it has the additional letters і and ў.

Print	а a	б b	в v	г g	д d	е e	ё jo	ж ž	з z	і i	й j
Braille
Print	к k	л l	м m	н n	о o	п p	р r	с s	т t	у u	ў ŭ
Braille
Print	ф f	х ch	ц c	ч č	ш š	ы y	ь ’	э è	ю ju	я ja
Braille

The letters і and ў are the mirror images of й and у, and the і was once found in Russian Braille. (See obsolete letters of Russian Braille.)

Punctuation

Single punctuation:

Print	,	.	?	!	;	:	-	'
Braille

Paired punctuation:

Print	« ... »	( ... )
Braille	...	...

Formatting

italics	capital	number

See also

• Ukrainian Braille

References

• UNESCO (2013) World Braille Usage Archived 2014-09-08 at the Wayback Machine, 3rd edition.

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