German Braille is one of the older braille alphabets. The French-based order of the letter assignments was largely settled on with the 1878 convention that decided the standard for international braille . However, the assignments for German letters beyond the 26 of the basic Latin alphabet are mostly unrelated to French values.
4-527: In numerical order by decade, the letters are: The generic accent sign, ⠈ , is used with foreign names such as ⠍ ⠕ ⠇ ⠊ ⠈ ⠑ ⠗ ⠑ Molière that have accented letters not found in German. There are numerous contractions and abbreviations. Punctuation is as follows: Only the first asterisk is marked with dot 6, so print *** is in braille ⠠ ⠔ ⠔ ⠔ . ⠴ is the Artikel sign, marking an article of
8-415: A document. For the brackets of phonetic transcription, German Braille uses a modified form, ⠰ ⠶ ... ⠰ ⠶ . Additional punctuation and symbols, especially mathematical, are explained in the external reference below. Numbers are introduced with the sign ⠼ . They are dropped to decade 5 for ordinals and for the denominator of fractions. So, for example, ⠼ ⠙ is ⟨4⟩ , while ⠼ ⠲
12-466: Is ⟨4.⟩ (4th), and ⠼ ⠉ ⠲ is ⟨ 3 ⁄ 4 ⟩ ́. The percent sign requires the number sign even after a number: ⠼ ⠃ ⠼ ⠴ ⟨2%⟩ ; otherwise it would look like the (undefined) fraction 2 ⁄ 0 . In a compound fraction, a repeat of the number sign separate the units from the fraction: ⠼ ⠁ ⠼ ⠁ ⠆ ⟨ 1 + 1 ⁄ 2 ⟩ . The emphasis sign (for italics, underline, or bold)
16-446: Is marked with an extra point, ⠠ ⠸ , when it occurs in the middle of a word. It is doubled, ⠸ ⠸ , when more than one word is emphasized, in which case the ending sign ⠠ ⠄ will be required at the end of the last word. The all-caps sign is used for initialisms and the like. Doubled, it is used for all-cap text, such as titles, and the same ending sign, ⠠ ⠄ , is used. Names with initials, such as J.S. Bach , do not require
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