Czech Braille
# Czech Braille

Czech Braille is the braille alphabet of the Czech language. Like braille in other Latin-script languages, Czech Braille assigns the 25 basic Latin letters (not including "W") the same as Louis Braille's original assignments for French.

## Czech Braille chart

With the exception of w, Czech follows international norms for the basic letters of the alphabet.

| a, 1 | á | b, 2 | c, 3 | č | d, 4 | ď | e, 5 | é | ě | f, 6 | g, 7 |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| h, 8 | i, 9 | í | j, 0 | k | l | m | n | ň | o | ó | p, % |
| q | r, ‰ | ř | s | š | t | ť | u | ú, § | ů | v | w |
| x | y | ý | z | ž | | . | , | : | ; | - or − | + |
| / | ? | ! | " | ( | ) | * | ’ | | | (Cap) | (CAPS) | (l.c.) |

For letters with diacritics, there are two common strategies: (1) a dot 6 may be added (á, č, ď), or (2) the letter is reversed (ň, ó, ř, š, ť, ú, ý, ž). The Czech braille letter ř is the international form for w, so w has been assigned an idiosyncratic form, which is the reverse of ů. Í is a stretched i. É and ě are not derived from e, but are the reverse of each other.

| a | c | d | e | e | i | n | o | r | s | t | u | u | v | v | y | z |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| á | č | ď | é | ě | í | ň | ó | ř | š | ť | ú | ů | ů | w | ý | ž |

The numerical prefix, ⠼, derives the second options in the table (the digits, %, ‰, §). ⠠ indicates a capital letter, ⠰ that a word is in all caps, and ⠐ indicates lower case. There are also prefixes for small and capital Greek letters, ⠘ and ⠨.

## Slovak Braille

Slovak Braille is similar. Ô is equivalent to Czech Braille ů, and it does not have the letters ě or ř. In addition, there are four letters not found in Czech Braille:

| ä | ĺ | ľ | ŕ |
| - | - | - | - |
