Bengali Braille

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Bengali Braille is used for the Bengali and Assamese. According to UNESCO (2013),^[1] there are slight different braille conventions for Bengali language in Bangladesh and India, this article compares Bengali Braille in the two countries.

Bengali Braille chart

Vowel Alphabets

Print	অ	আ	ই	ঈ	উ	ঊ	এ	ঐ	ও	ঔ	ঋ	ঌ
Bangladesh	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	-^[2]
India	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

Consonant Alphabets

Print	ক	খ	গ	ঘ	ঙ	চ	ছ	জ	ঝ	ঞ
Bangladesh	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
India	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	ট	ঠ	ড	ঢ	ণ	ত	থ	দ	ধ	ন
Bangladesh & India	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	প	ফ	ব	ভ	ম	য	র / ৰ^[3]	ল	ৱ^[4]
Bangladesh	Template:Braille cell	Template:Braille cell	Template:Braille cell	Template:Braille cell	Template:Braille cell	Template:Braille cell	Template:Braille cell	Template:Braille cell	-
India	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	শ	ষ	স	হ	ক্ষ	জ্ঞ	ড়	ঢ়		য়^[5]	Template:Lang
Bangladesh	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
India	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	(?)^[6]

Codas (Script modifiers)

Print
Print	Template:Lang		Template:Lang		Template:Lang		Template:Lang		Template:Lang		Template:Lang
Bangladesh & India	Template:Braille cell		Template:Braille cell		Template:Braille cell		Template:Braille cell		Template:Braille cell		Template:Braille cell

Numerals

Bengali numerals	১	২	৩	৪	৫	৬	৭	৮	৯	০
Bangladesh & India	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

Punctuation marks

Print	,	;	:	?	!	-	—
Bangladesh & India	Template:Braille cell	Template:Braille cell	Template:Braille cell	Template:Braille cell	Template:Braille cell	Template:Braille cell	Template:Braille cell

Print	‘ ... ’	[ ... ]	/	*
Bangladesh & India	Template:Braille cell	Template:Braille cell	Template:Braille cell	Template:Braille cell

See also

Bharati braille

References

↑ World Braille Usage Template:Webarchive, UNESCO, 2013
↑ The braille letter for Template:Lang is not attested from Bangladesh. (It is an obsolete vowel in modern Bengali language.)
↑ "র" for Bengali in Bangladesh and India and "ৰ" for Assamese in India only.
↑ This alphabet "ৱ" is used in Assamese in India. (Similar to the "ভ" of Bangladesh standard.)
↑ In other Bharati braille alphabets, this is transcribed as short vowel e.
↑ The braille letter for Template:Lang is not attested from India.

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