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
Type
Alphabet
LanguagesSerbo-Croatian, Slovene, Macedonian
Parent systems
Braille
  • Yugoslav Braille
Print basis
Gaj's Latin alphabet
Macedonian alphabet
Slovene alphabet

Alphabet

Braille
Serbian абцћчдђџ-ефг-
Croatian abcćčdđ-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];:*-_/&§  
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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