Arabic Braille


Arabic Braille is the braille alphabet for the Other Arabic-based alphabets have braille systems similar to Arabic Braille, such as Urdu and Persian Braille, but differ in some letter and diacritic assignments.
Unlike the Arabic script, Arabic Braille is read from left to right, following the international convention. Numbers are also left to right, as in printed Arabic.

Arabic Braille chart

Arabic Braille includes numerous abbreviations, some marked by dot 4 or dot 5, which are not described here. A conference in Saudi Arabia in 2002 set up a unified braille standard for Arabic, but as of 2013 not all countries had signed up; those not adopting the standard include some Arab countries but also non-Arab Muslim countries such as Iran, Malaysia, and Indonesia.

Letters

Although short-vowel letters are not diacritics in Arabic Braille, they are optional and generally omitted, just as in print Arabic.
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Braille
Braille ⠁⠃⠞⠹⠚⠱⠭⠙⠮⠗

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Braille
Braille ⠵⠎⠩⠯⠫⠾⠿⠷⠣⠋

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Braille
Braille ⠟⠅⠇⠍⠝⠓⠺⠊⠕⠡

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Braille
Braille ⠉⠧⠌⠨⠜⠪⠳⠽⠄

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Braille
Braille ⠥⠂⠑⠢⠰⠔⠒⠠

Shaddah ⟨⟩ comes before the consonant; sukun ⟨⟩ and the vowels after.

Digits

Arabic Braille follows the French convention. A couple of these cells, namely '3' and '7', are not used for letters.
Print١ 1٢ 2٣ 3٤ 4٥ 5٦ 6٧ 7٨ 8٩ 9٠ 0
Braille

Punctuation and formatting

There are some differences in quotation marks, brackets, and underlining between traditional and unified Arabic braille conventions.
;Common punctuation
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Braille
Braille ⠐⠰⠐⠂⠲⠖⠦⠤

;Legacy punctuation
;Unified Arabic punctuation
Print“...”underlining
Braille............
Braille ⠶ ⠶⠦ ⠴⠠⠦ ⠴⠄⠐⠦ ⠴⠂⠠⠤