Catalan Braille is the braille alphabet of the Catalan language.
It is very close to French Braille: it uses the 26 letters of the basic braille alphabet, plus several additional letters for ç and what are, in print, vowel letters with diacritics; these differ from their French values only in the need to accommodate the Catalan acute accent: ú, ó, í for what are in French Braille ù, œ, ì :
{| class="wikitable" style="line-height: 1.2" |- align=center | ç | à | é | è | í | ï | ó | ò | ú | ü
Print digraphs are written as digraphs in braille as well.
Punctuation middot , . ? ! ' ; - — ...
The middot is used to distinguish double-el , , from the digraph , .
... ... " ... "According to Catalan Wikipedia. This is the reverse of what would be expected from international norms. ( ... )
Formatting
(digit) (caps)
The capital sign needs to be repeated for each letter of an initialism, so ACIC is .
See also Abecedari Braille de 1931, a 1931 alphabet with different letter assignments and punctuation, including dropped digits for ordinal numbers. Alfabet Braille, a chart from the Associació Catalana per a la Integració del Cec with some dubious letter assignments, such as the loss of a distinct acute accent and the use of the colon for .
References
UNESCO (2013) World Braille Usage , 3rd edition.