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Yugoslav Braille

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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.

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Punctuation

Serbian and Croatian Braille differ in quotation marks, brackets, and in the period/full stop vs. apostrophe. 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:

Paired punctuation:

Formatting

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

Yugoslav Braille Wikipedia