Ukrainian Braille is the braille alphabet of the Ukrainian language. It is based on the Russian Braille, with a few additional letters found in the print Ukrainian alphabet.

Ukrainian Braille
Script type
alphabet
Print basis
Ukrainian alphabet
LanguagesUkrainian
Related scripts
Parent systems
Braille

Alphabet

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Ukrainian does not use all the letters of the Russian alphabet, and it has the additional letters є, ґ, і, ї.

Print а a б b в v г h ґ g(?) д d е e є je ж ž з z и y
Braille                      
Print і i ї ï й j к k л l м m н n о o п p р r с s
Braille                      
Print т t у u ф f х kh ц c ч č ш š щ šč ь ю yu я ya
Braille                      

The letter і was once found in Russian Braille, but has been dropped. є is the mirror image of a reported archaic form of Russian э. (See obsolete letters of Russian Braille.)

g was reported in UNESCO (1990), but could not be confirmed by UNESCO (2013). It is not repeated by Leksika.com.[1]

Punctuation

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Punctuation is from UNESCO (1990) and has not been confirmed.

Single punctuation:

Print , . ? ! ; : - '
Braille                

Paired punctuation:

Print « ... » ( ... )
Braille  ...   ... 

Formatting

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italics capital number
     

Numbers

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Numbers are the letters a–j introduced with , as in other braille alphabets.

See also

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References

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  1. ^ БРАЙЛЯ ШРИФТ, Leksika.com.ua