Dzongkha_Braille

Dzongkha Braille
Bhutanese Braille
Dzongkha Braille; Bhutanese Braille
Script type	Alphabet
Print basis	Tibetan alphabet
Languages	Dzongkha
Related scripts
Parent systems	Braille English Braille Dzongkha Braille; ;

Dzongkha Braille

Braille alphabet used for writing Dzongkha

Dzongkha Braille or Bhutanese Braille, is the braille alphabet for writing Dzongkha, the national language of Bhutan. It is based on English braille, with some extensions from international usage. As in print, the vowel a is not written.

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Despite Dzongkha and Tibetan using nearly the same alphabet in print, the braille alphabets differ radically, with Tibetan Braille closer to German conventions and assigned letter values according to different sound correspondences.

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UNESCO (2013) World Braille Usage, 3rd edition.

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Consonant	ka	kha	ga	nga	ca	cha	ja	nya
Print	ཀ	ཁ	ག	ང	ཅ	ཆ	ཇ	ཉ
Braille

Consonant	ta	tha	da	na	pa	pha	ba	ma
Print	ཏ	ཐ	ད	ན	པ	ཕ	བ	མ
Braille

Consonant	tsa	tsha	dza	wa	zha	za	'a	ya
Print	ཙ	ཚ	ཛ	ཝ	ཞ	ཟ	འ	ཡ
Braille

Consonant	ra	la	sha	sa	ha	a
Print	ར	ལ	ཤ	ས	ཧ	ཨ
Braille

Vowels	a	i	u	e	o
Print (on ཨ )	ཨ	ཨི	ཨུ	ཨེ	ཨོ
Braille
	ka	ki	ku	ke	ko
Print (on ཀ )	ཀ	ཀི	ཀུ	ཀེ	ཀོ
Braille

Dzongkha_Braille

Dzongkha Braille

Alphabet

Punctuation

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