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

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

Alphabet

Braille⠁ (braille pattern dots-1) ⠃ (braille pattern dots-12) ⠉ (braille pattern dots-14) ⠩ (braille pattern dots-146) ⠡ (braille pattern dots-16) ⠙ (braille pattern dots-145) ⠹ (braille pattern dots-1456) ⠻ (braille pattern dots-12456) ⠳ (braille pattern dots-1256) ⠑ (braille pattern dots-15) ⠋ (braille pattern dots-124) ⠛ (braille pattern dots-1245) ⠜ (braille pattern dots-345)
Serbian абцћчдђџ-ефг-
Croatian abcćčdđ-efg-
Macedonian абц-чд-џѕефгѓ
Slovene abc-čd---efg-
Braille⠓ (braille pattern dots-125) ⠊ (braille pattern dots-24) ⠚ (braille pattern dots-245) ⠅ (braille pattern dots-13) ⠌ (braille pattern dots-34) ⠇ (braille pattern dots-123) ⠣ (braille pattern dots-126) ⠍ (braille pattern dots-134) ⠝ (braille pattern dots-1345) ⠫ (braille pattern dots-1246) ⠕ (braille pattern dots-135) ⠏ (braille pattern dots-1234)  
Serbian хијк-лљмнњоп 
Croatian hijk-lljmnnjop 
Macedonian хијкќлљмнњоп 
Slovene hijk-l-mn-op 
Braille⠟ (braille pattern dots-12345) ⠗ (braille pattern dots-1235) ⠎ (braille pattern dots-234) ⠱ (braille pattern dots-156) ⠞ (braille pattern dots-2345) ⠥ (braille pattern dots-136) ⠧ (braille pattern dots-1236) ⠺ (braille pattern dots-2456) ⠭ (braille pattern dots-1346) ⠽ (braille pattern dots-13456) ⠵ (braille pattern dots-1356) ⠮ (braille pattern dots-2346)  
Serbian -рсштув---зж 
Croatian -rsštuv---zž 
Macedonian -рсштув---зж 
Slovene -rsštuv---zž 
Accents
(print accents illustrated on the letter e)
Print èȅéȇ
Braille ⠈ (braille pattern dots-4) ⠐ (braille pattern dots-5) ⠘ (braille pattern dots-45) ⠰ (braille pattern dots-56)

Punctuation

Unesco reports that Croatian Braille swaps the Serbian quotation marks for parentheses and the period/full stop for the apostrophe, but it's possible that this is due to a copy error; the table below follows Croatian Wikipedia, which agrees with Serbian, for these characters.[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 ⠂ (braille pattern dots-2) ⠲ (braille pattern dots-256) ⠢ (braille pattern dots-26) ⠖ (braille pattern dots-235) ⠄ (braille pattern dots-3) ⠆ (braille pattern dots-23) ⠒ (braille pattern dots-25) ⠔ (braille pattern dots-35) ⠤ (braille pattern dots-36) ⠳ (braille pattern dots-1256) ⠯ (braille pattern dots-12346) ⠬ (braille pattern dots-346)
Serbian ⠠ (braille pattern dots-6) ⠤ (braille pattern dots-36) ⠌ (braille pattern dots-34)

Paired punctuation:

Print “…”[1] ‘…’ (…)[1] […] {…}
Croatian ⠦ (braille pattern dots-236) ...⠴ (braille pattern dots-356) ⠄ (braille pattern dots-3) ...⠄ (braille pattern dots-3) ⠶ (braille pattern dots-2356) ...⠶ (braille pattern dots-2356) ⠷ (braille pattern dots-12356) ...⠾ (braille pattern dots-23456)
Serbian ⠦ (braille pattern dots-236) ⠄ (braille pattern dots-3) ...⠠ (braille pattern dots-6) ⠴ (braille pattern dots-356) ⠶ (braille pattern dots-2356) ⠄ (braille pattern dots-3) ...⠠ (braille pattern dots-6) ⠶ (braille pattern dots-2356) ⠶ (braille pattern dots-2356) ⠆ (braille pattern dots-23) ...⠰ (braille pattern dots-56) ⠶ (braille pattern dots-2356)

Formatting

⠼ (braille pattern dots-3456) ⠠ (braille pattern dots-6) ⠨ (braille pattern dots-46) ⠘ (braille pattern dots-45) ⠠ (braille pattern dots-6) ⠸ (braille pattern dots-456) ⠌ (braille pattern dots-34)
(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.

Croatian Wikipedia states that is used for capital letters.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 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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