Yugoslav Braille

Yugoslav Braille
Type	alphabet
Languages	Serbo-Croatian, Slovene, Macedonian
Parent systems	Braille Yugoslav Braille
Print basis	Gaj's Latin alphabet Macedonian alphabet Slovene alphabet

Yugoslav Braille is a family of closely related braille alphabets used for the Bosnian, Serbian, Croatian, Slovene, and Macedonian languages. It is based on the unified international braille conventions, with the letters corresponding to their Latin transliterations.

Alphabet

Braille
Serbian	а	б	ц	ћ	ч	д	ђ	џ	-	е	ф	г	-
Croatian	a	b	c	ć	č	d	đ	dž	-	e	f	g	-
Macedonian	а	б	ц	-	ч	д	-	џ	ѕ	е	ф	г	ѓ
Slovene	a	b	c	-	č	d	-	-	-	e	f	g	-
Braille
Serbian	х	и	ј	к	-	л	љ	м	н	њ	о	п
Croatian	h	i	j	k	-	l	lj	m	n	nj	o	p
Macedonian	х	и	ј	к	ќ	л	љ	м	н	њ	о	п
Slovene	h	i	j	k	-	l	-	m	n	-	o	p
Braille
Serbian	-	р	с	ш	т	у	в	-	-	-	з	ж
Croatian	q	r	s	š	t	u	v	w	x	y	z	ž
Macedonian	-	р	с	ш	т	у	в	-	-	-	з	ж
Slovene	q	r	s	š	t	u	v	w	x	y	z	ž

Accents
(print accents illustrated on the letter e)

Print	è	ȅ	é	ȇ
Braille

Punctuation

Serbian and Croatian Braille differ in quotation marks, brackets, and in the period/full stop vs. apostrophe.^[1] There is less punctuation reported for Slovene and Macedonian Braille, but what there is matches Serbian conventions.

Blank cells in the tables are unattested.

Single punctuation:

Print	,	.[1]	?	!	'[1]	;	:	*	-	_	/	&	§   ¶
Croatian
Serbian

Paired punctuation:

Print	“ ...... ”[1]	‘ ...... ’	( ...... )[1]	[ ...... ]	{ ...... }	/ ...... /
Croatian
Serbian

Formatting

(num.)	(end num.)	(Caps)	(CAPS)	(l.c.)	(emph.)	(super- script)

The superscript is reported for Croatian Braille; in Serbian Braille, ⠌ is used for the virgule /. In Slovene Braille, the emphasis (bold/italic) marker ⠸ is reported to be an abbreviation sign.

References

1. The Croatian apostrophe ⠲ is unusual by international standards, and it is possible the period and apostrophe were swapped in a copy error by Unesco (2013) and copied from them to other sources. Croatian Wikipedia gives ⠲ for the period and ⠶ for parentheses, both agreeing with Serbian Braille.