Samoan Braille
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Braille system for Samoan
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| Samoan Braille | |
|---|---|
| Script type | alphabet
|
Print basis | Samoan alphabet |
| Languages | Samoan |
| Related scripts | |
Parent systems | Braille
|
Samoan Braille is the braille alphabet of the Samoan language.[1] It is a subset of the basic braille alphabet,
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⠁ (braille pattern dots-1) ⠑ (braille pattern dots-15) ⠋ (braille pattern dots-124) ⠛ (braille pattern dots-1245) ⠊ (braille pattern dots-24) ⠇ (braille pattern dots-123) ⠍ (braille pattern dots-134) ⠝ (braille pattern dots-1345) ⠕ (braille pattern dots-135) ⠏ (braille pattern dots-1234) ⠎ (braille pattern dots-234) ⠞ (braille pattern dots-2345) ⠥ (braille pattern dots-136) ⠧ (braille pattern dots-1236) ⠓ (braille pattern dots-125) ⠅ (braille pattern dots-13) ⠗ (braille pattern dots-1235)a e f g i l m n o p s t u v h k r
supplemented by an additional letter ⠰ to mark long vowels:
Unlike print Samoan, which has a special letter ʻokina for the glottal stop, Samoan Braille uses the apostrophe ⠈, which behaves as punctuation rather than as a consonant. (See Hawaiian Braille, which has a similar setup.)
Samoan Braille has an unusual punctuation mark, a reduplication sign ⠙. This is used to indicate that a word is reduplicated, as in ⠎⠑⠛⠊⠙ segisegi "twilight".
References
[edit ]- ^ UNESCO (2013) World Braille Usage, 3rd edition.