Turkish Braille
# Turkish Braille

Turkish Braille (kabartma yazı) is the braille alphabet of the Turkish language.

## Alphabet

Turkish Braille follows international usage. The vowels with diacritics, ö and ü, have their French/German forms, whereas the consonants with diacritics, ç, ğ, and ş, have the forms of the nearest English approximations, ch, gh, and sh. Dotless i is derived by shifting down.

| a | b | c | ç | d | e | f | g | ğ | h |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| ı | i | j | k | l | m | n | o | ö | p |
| r | s | ş | t | u | ü | v | y | z | |

The accent point, ⠈, is used for â, î, û. Point ⠠ is used for capitals.

## Punctuation

Punctuation and arithmetical signs are as follows:

| ◌̂ | ' | , | ; | : | . | ! | ? | - | (space) |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| ... ( ... ) | ... ( ... ) | ... ( ... ) | ... “ ... ” | ... “ ... ” | ... “ ... ” | (quote dash) | (quote dash) | (poetry) | (poetry) |

⠜⠜ is perhaps related to ⠜ in Irish Braille, which marks a new line of verse.

For quotations, the dash — is used differently from inverted commas “...”, for example when transcribing short turns in dialog.

## Extensions to other languages

Azeri (Azerbaijani) Braille adds the letters x and q with their international forms ⠭ and ⠟. These letters are used in Azeri Braille, or in the case of Turkish Braille, in foreign words. w is only used for foreign words in both Turkish and Azeri Braille. Azeri Braille uses the accent mark ⠈ to derive print ə (formerly ä) from a.

| ə | x | q | w |
| - | - | - | - |
