Yugoslav Braille

Yugoslav Braille is a family of closely related braille alphabets used for Serbo-Croatian, Slovene and Macedonian languages. It is based on the unified international braille conventions, with the letters corresponding to their Latin transliterations.

Yugoslav Braille
Script type
Alphabet
Print basis
Gaj's Latin alphabet
Macedonian alphabet
Slovene alphabet
LanguagesSerbo-Croatian, Slovene, Macedonian
Related scripts
Parent systems
Braille
  • Yugoslav Braille

Alphabet

Braille⠁⠃⠉⠩⠡⠙⠹⠻⠳⠑⠋⠛⠜
Serbian абцћчдђџ-ефг-
Croatian abcćčdđdž-efg-
Macedonian абц-чд-џѕефгѓ
Slovene abc-čd---efg-
Braille⠓⠊⠚⠅⠌⠇⠣⠍⠝⠫⠕⠏ 
Serbian хијк-лљмнњоп 
Croatian hijk-lljmnnjop 
Macedonian хијкќлљмнњоп 
Slovene hijk-l-mn-op 
Braille⠟⠗⠎⠱⠞⠥⠧⠺⠭⠽⠵⠮ 
Serbian -рсштув---зж 
Croatian qrsštuvwxyzž 
Macedonian -рсштув---зж 
Slovene qrsštuvwxyzž 
Accents
(print accents illustrated on the letter e)
Print èȅéȇ
Braille ⠈⠐⠘⠰

Punctuation

Serbian and Croatian Braille differ in quotation marks, brackets, and in the period/full stop vs. apostrophe.[1] There is less punctuation reported for Slovene and Macedonian Braille, but what there is matches Serbian conventions.

Blank cells in the tables are unattested.

Single punctuation:

Print,.[1] ? !'[1] ; :*-_/&§ and ¶
Croatian ⠂ ⠄ ⠢ ⠖ ⠲ ⠆ ⠒ ⠔ ⠤ ⠳ ⠯ ⠬
Serbian ⠲ ⠄ ⠠⠤ ⠌

Paired punctuation:

Print “…”[1] ‘…’ (…)[1] […] {…} /…/
Croatian ⠶⠀⠶ ⠄⠀⠄ ⠦⠀⠴ ⠷⠀⠾ ⠳⠀⠳
Serbian ⠦⠀⠴ ⠦⠄⠀⠠⠴ ⠶⠀⠶ ⠶⠄⠀⠠⠶ ⠶⠆⠀⠰⠶

Formatting

⠼ ⠠ ⠨ ⠘ ⠠ ⠸ ⠌
(num.) (end
num.)
(Caps) (CAPS) (l.c.) (emph.) (super-
script)

The superscript is reported for Croatian Braille; in Serbian Braille, ⠌ is used for the virgule /. In Slovene Braille, the emphasis (bold/italic) marker ⠸ is reported to be an abbreviation sign.

References

  1. The Croatian apostrophe ⠲ is unusual by international standards, and it is possible the period and apostrophe were swapped in a copy error by Unesco (2013) and copied from them to other sources. Croatian Wikipedia gives ⠲ for the period and ⠶ for parentheses, both agreeing with Serbian Braille.
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