Mongolian Braille

Mongolian Braille
Type	alphabet
Languages	Mongolian
Parent systems	Braille Russian Braille Mongolian Braille
Print basis	Mongolian Cyrillic alphabet

Mongolian Braille is the braille alphabets used for the Mongolian language in (Outer) Mongolia. It is based on Russian Braille, with a couple additional letters for print letters found in the Mongolian Cyrillic alphabet.^[1]

Alphabet

The printed Mongolian Cyrillic alphabet has all the letters of printed Russian, though some are only used in loan words, plus the letters ө, ү.

Print	а a	б b	в v	г g	д d	е ye	ё yo	ж j	з dz	и i	й y	к k
Braille
Print	л l	м m	н n	о o	ө ö	п p	р r	с s	т t	у u	ү ü	ф f
Braille
Print	х kh	ц ts	ч ch	ш sh	щ shch	ъ ”	ы i	ь ’	э e	ю yu	я ya
Braille

The non-Russian letters ө, ү, have the forms of two obsolete letters of Russian Braille. The Mongolian vowel ө (ö) is coincidentally similar in print to the old Russian consonant ѳ (th), and it takes the latter's braille assignment, ⠧; the Mongolian vowel ү (ü) takes the assignment of the old Russian vowel yat, ⠹.

Punctuation

Print	,	.	?	!
Braille

See also

• Mongolian Cyrillic alphabet, for the braille alphabet aligned with Cyrillic

References

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