The Nguni languages – Ndebele, Swazi, Xhosa, and Zulu – have no diacritics and will not be discussed further. The braille diacritics are shared by South African languages and are described in the sections that follow.
Punctuation for all South African braille alphabets is as in English Braille.
Venda has a unique letter, ⠨, for the subscript circumflex, and treats ṅ as acute:
⠨⠙ḓ, ⠨⠇ḽ, ⠨⠝ṋ, ⠈⠝ṅ, ⠨⠞ṱ
Referencesedit
^Ethnologue 17 reports that Tsonga is also written in braille.
UNESCO (2013) World Braille Usage, 3rd edition.
March 18, 2024
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