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Yugoslav Braille is a family of closely related braille alphabets used for South Slavic languages of former Yugoslavia, namely Serbo-Croatian, Slovene and Macedonian. It is based on the unified international braille conventions, with the letters corresponding to their Latin transliterations.

Alphabet

Braille
Serbian	а	б	ц	ћ	ч	д	ђ	џ	-	е	ф	г	-
Croatian	a	b	c	ć	č	d	đ	dž	-	e	f	g	-
Macedonian	а	б	ц	-	ч	д	-	џ	ѕ	е	ф	г	ѓ
Slovene	a	b	c	-	č	d	-	-	-	e	f	g	-
Braille
Serbian	х	и	ј	к	-	л	љ	м	н	њ	о	п
Croatian	h	i	j	k	-	l	lj	m	n	nj	o	p
Macedonian	х	и	ј	к	ќ	л	љ	м	н	њ	о	п
Slovene	h	i	j	k	-	l	-	m	n	-	o	p
Braille
Serbian	-	р	с	ш	т	у	в	-	-	-	з	ж
Croatian	-	r	s	š	t	u	v	-	-	-	z	ž
Macedonian	-	р	с	ш	т	у	в	-	-	-	з	ж
Slovene	-	r	s	š	t	u	v	-	-	-	z	ž

Accents
(print accents illustrated on the letter e)

Print	è	ȅ	é	ȇ
Braille

Punctuation

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Unesco reports that Croatian Braille swaps the Serbian quotation marks for parentheses and the period/full stop for the apostrophe, but it's possible that this is due to a copy error; the table below follows Croatian Misplaced Pages, which agrees with Serbian, for these characters. 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:

Print	,	.	?	!	'	;	:	*	-	_	/	&	§ and ¶
Croatian
Serbian

Paired punctuation:

Print	“…”	‘…’	(…)		{…}
Croatian	...	...	...	...
Serbian		...		...	...

Formatting

(num.)	(end num.)	(Caps)	(CAPS)	(l.c.)	(emph.)	(super- script)

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.

Croatian Misplaced Pages states that ⠠ is used for capital letters.

References

1. ^ The Croatian apostrophe ⠲ is unusual by international standards, and it is possible the period and apostrophe were swapped in a copy error by Unesco (2013) and copied from them to other sources. Croatian Misplaced Pages gives ⠲ for the period and ⠶ for parentheses, both agreeing with Serbian Braille.

• French-ordered braille alphabets
• Serbian language
• Macedonian language
• Croatian language
• Slovene language