Arabic Braille

Arabic Braille
Script type
abjad
ca. 1950
Print basis
Arabic alphabet
LanguagesArabic
Related scripts
Parent systems

Arabic Braille (Arabic: بِرَيْل الْعَرَبِيَّة, birayl alʿarabīyah) is the braille alphabet for the [1] 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.[2]

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.

  1. ^ "Archived copy". www.sagma.ma. Archived from the original on 5 June 2007. Retrieved 14 January 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  2. ^ "World Braille Usage" (PDF). UNESCO. Retrieved 2012-04-27.