Vietnamese Braille - Alphabet

Alphabet

Apart from đ and d (for French Braille d and z) and the addition of five tone letters, the Vietnamese Braille alphabet is nearly identical to French Braille: the only other difference is the substitution of Vietnamese ư ơ for French ü œ, and the dropping of those letters which are not needed in Vietnamese. However, because of the tone letters, the design is different: Vietnamese Braille has separate letters for vowels and tones, so the French Braille letters for é à è ù are not used; they are written instead as tone ◌́ or ◌̀ plus the vowels a e u.

Vietnamese Braille

a
b
c
đ
e
g
h
i

k
l
m
n
o
p
q
r
s
t

u
v
x
y
d

â
ê
ô
ư
ơ
ă

,
;
:
.
◌̉



◌́

◌̀


◌̃
◌̣

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
0
  • One braille letter is used for each Latin letter.
  • Tone letters (transcribing the diacritics ◌̉ ◌́ ◌̀ ◌̃ ◌̣) are written immediately before the vowel.
  • (Punctuation is unconfirmed)

For example,

Màn hình chữ nổi.
cap-m-◌̀-a-n h-◌̀-i-n-h c-h-◌̃-ư n-◌̉-ô-i-stop

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