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.
| Yugoslav Braille | |
|---|---|
| Script type | Alphabet |
Print basis | Gaj's Latin alphabet Macedonian alphabet Slovene alphabet |
| Languages | Serbo-Croatian, Slovene, Macedonian |
| Related scripts | |
Parent systems | Braille
|
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 |
| è | ȅ | é | ȇ | |
| Braille |  |  |  |  |
Punctuation
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 Wikipedia, which agrees with Serbian, for these characters.[1] 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:
| , | .[1] | ? | ! | '[1] | ; | : | * | - | _ | / | & | § and ¶ | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Croatian |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | |  |  | |
| Serbian |  | |
Paired punctuation:
| “…”[1] | ‘…’ | (…)[1] | […] | {…} | |
| 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 Wikipedia states that ⠠ is used for capital letters.