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Philippine Braille

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Type
  
alphabet

Languages
  
Tagalog, Ilocano, Cebuano, Hiligaynon, Bicol

Parent systems
  
Braille English Braille Philippine Braille

Print basis
  
Filipino alphabet; Abakada alphabet

Philippine Braille, or Filipino Braille, is the braille alphabet of the Philippines. Besides Filipino (Tagalog), essentially the same alphabet is used for Ilocano, Cebuano, Hiligaynon, and Bicol (UNESCO 2013).

Philippine Braille is based on the 26 letters of the basic braille alphabet used for Grade-1 English Braille, so the print digraph ng is written as a digraph in braille as well. The print letter ñ is rendered with the generic accent point, . These are considered part of the alphabet, which is therefore,

Numbers and punctuation are as in traditional English Braille, though the virgule / is as in Unified English Braille.

References

Philippine Braille Wikipedia