Samoan Braille | |
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Script type | alphabet
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Print basis | Samoan alphabet |
Languages | Samoan |
Related scripts | |
Parent systems | Braille
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Samoan Braille is the braille alphabet of the Samoan language.[1] It is a subset of the basic braille alphabet,
supplemented by an additional letter ⠰ to mark long vowels:
Unlike print Samoan, which has a special letter ʻokina for the glottal stop, Samoan Braille uses the apostrophe ⠈, which behaves as punctuation rather than as a consonant. (See Hawaiian Braille, which has a similar setup.)
Samoan Braille has an unusual punctuation mark, a reduplication sign ⠙. This is used to indicate that a word is reduplicated, as in ⠎⠑⠛⠊⠙ segisegi "twilight".
References
[edit]- ^ UNESCO (2013) World Braille Usage, 3rd edition.