Kazakh Braille

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

Alphabet

Kazakh uses all of the letters of the Russian alphabet, though some just in loans, and has the additional letters ә, ғ, қ, ң, һ, ө, ұ, ү, і.

Print	а a	ә ä	б b	в v	г g	ғ ğ	д d	е e	ё yo	ж j	з z	и ï	й y	к k
Braille	Template:Braille cell	Template:Braille cell	Template:Braille cell	Template:Braille cell	Template:Braille cell	Template:Braille cell	Template:Braille cell	Template:Braille cell	Template:Braille cell	Template:Braille cell	Template:Braille cell	Template:Braille cell	Template:Braille cell	Template:Braille cell
Print	қ q	л l	м m	н n	ң ñ	о o	ө ö	п p	р r	с s	т t	у w	ұ u	ү ü
Braille	Template:Braille cell	Template:Braille cell	Template:Braille cell	Template:Braille cell	Template:Braille cell	Template:Braille cell	Template:Braille cell	Template:Braille cell	Template:Braille cell	Template:Braille cell	Template:Braille cell	Template:Braille cell	Template:Braille cell	Template:Braille cell
Print	ф f	х x	һ h	ц c	ч ç	ш ş	щ şş	ъ ”	ы ı	і i	ь ’	э é	ю yu	я ya
Braille	Template:Braille cell	Template:Braille cell	Template:Braille cell	Template:Braille cell	Template:Braille cell	Template:Braille cell	Template:Braille cell	Template:Braille cell	Template:Braille cell	Template:Braille cell	Template:Braille cell	Template:Braille cell	Template:Braille cell	Template:Braille cell

Apart from Template:Bc і, which once existed in Russian Braille, and Template:Bc ұ, which is the same as the ў of Belarusian Braille (a letter which was used in earlier Kazakh alphabets with the same value), the braille values assigned to the extra Kazakh letters do not follow the assignments of other languages that use the Cyrillic script in print. They also do not follow international norms, apart from Template:Bc ә (Latin ä).

Punctuation

Single punctuation:

Print	,	.	?	!	;	:
Braille	Template:Braille cell	Template:Braille cell	Template:Braille cell	Template:Braille cell	Template:Braille cell	Template:Braille cell

Paired punctuation:

Kazakh Braille is reported to use the Russian arithmetical parentheses Template:Bc.

Print	« ...... »	( ...... )
Braille	Template:Braille cell	Template:Braille cell

Formatting

italics	capital	number
Template:Braille cell	Template:Braille cell	Template:Braille cell

See also

• Languages of Kazakhstan
• Kazakh alphabets#Correspondence chart, for the braille alphabet aligned with the Cyrillic

References

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