Amharic Braille
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alphabet
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Braille
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Amharic alphabet |
Amharic Braille is the braille alphabet of the Amharic language. Letter values are mostly in line with international usage.
Amharic Braille is a consonant–vowel alphabet, not an abugida like the print Amharic script. However, because the alphabetic chart (right) is organized by syllable rather than by letter, the vowels, which do not occur alone, are listed given first in the chart below, then the consonants are listed in Ge'ez order.
The syllabic chart at right shows a blank cell ⟨⠀⟩ being used for the vowel ⟨ə⟩. This is perhaps an artefact of the presentation; Unesco (2013) shows it as a zero vowel that is simply not written.
⟨ə⟩ is not the default vowel in print Amharic, which is instead ⟨ä⟩ (braille ⠢). For example, el + vowel is written ለ ⠇⠢ lä, ሉ ⠇⠥ lu, ሊ ⠇⠊ li, ላ ⠇⠁ la, ሌ ⠇⠑ le, ል ⠇ lə, ሎ ⠇⠕ lo, ሏ ⠇⠭ lwa.
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