Kyrgyz Braille

The braille alphabet used for the Kyrgyz language is based on Russian Braille, with a few additional letters found in the print Kyrgyz alphabet.

Alphabet[edit]

Kyrgyz Braille uses the entire Russian Braille alphabet, though some letters are only found in loans and in addition has the letters ң, ө, ү.

Print	а a	б b	в v	г g	д d	е ye	ё yo	ж j	з z	и i[1]	й y	к k
Braille
Print	л l	м m	н n	ң ng	о o	ө ö	п p	р r	с s	т t	у u	ү ü
Braille
Print	ф f	х kh	ц ts	ч ch	ш sh	щ shch	ъ ”	ы ı	ь ’	э e	ю yu	я ya
Braille

Although the non-Russian letters ң, ө, ү are found in many other Cyrillic alphabets, their braille assignments are unrelated to those or with international norms.^[2] Compare the ң, ө, ү of Kazakh Braille, for example.

Punctuation[edit]

The question mark differs from Russian Braille.

Single punctuation:

Print	,	.	?	!	;	:	-
Braille

Paired punctuation:

Print	« ... »	( ... )
Braille	...	...

Formatting[edit]

italics	capital	number

See also[edit]

• Kyrgyz alphabets § Correspondence chart, for the braille alphabet aligned with the Cyrillic

References[edit]

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