Braille (Pronounced: / ˈ b r eɪ l / BRAYL) is a tactile writing system used by people who are visually impaired, including people who are blind, deafblind or who have low vision.It can be read either on embossed paper or by using refreshable braille displays that connect to computers and smartphone devices. Braille can be written using a slate and stylus, a braille writer, an …

Katakana (片仮名、カタカナ, Japanese pronunciation: [katakaꜜna]) is a Japanese syllabary, one component of the Japanese writing system along with hiragana, kanji and in some cases the Latin script (known as rōmaji).The word katakana means "fragmentary kana", as the katakana characters are derived from components or fragments of more complex kanji.

Moon first formulated his ideas in 1843 and published the scheme in 1845. Moon is not as well known as braille, but it is a valuable alternative [citation needed] touch reading scheme for the blind or partially sighted people of any age. Rather than the dots of braille type, Moon type is made up of raised curves, angles, and lines.

The Burmese alphabet (Burmese: မြန်မာအက္ခရာ mranma akkha.ra, pronounced [mjəmà ʔɛʔkʰəjà]) is an abugida used for writing Burmese.It is ultimately adapted from a Brahmic script, either the Kadamba or Pallava alphabet of South India.The Burmese alphabet is also used for the liturgical languages of Pali and Sanskrit.In recent decades, other, related alphabets, such ...

†Abolished in Unified English Braille. Some of these ligatures transcribe common words, such as and or of, but they are not words: Pronunciation and meaning are ignored, and only spelling is relevant.For example, ⠮ the is commonly used when the sequence of print letters the appears, not just for the word "the". That is, ⠮ the is the letter "the" in braille, as in the two-letter word ...

Geʽez (/ ˈ ɡ iː ɛ z /; ግዕዝ, Gəʽəz IPA: [ˈɡɨʕɨz] (), and sometimes referred to in scholarly literature as Classical Ethiopic) is an ancient Ethiopian Semitic language.The language originates from what is now northern Ethiopia and Eritrea.. Today, Geʽez is used as the main liturgical language of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church and Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church, the ...

Lao script or Akson Lao (Lao: ອັກສອນລາວ [ʔáksɔ̌ːn láːw]) is the primary script used to write the Lao language and other minority languages in Laos.Its earlier form, the Tai Noi script, was also used to write the Isan language, but was replaced by the Thai script.It has 27 consonants (ພະຍັນຊະນະ [pʰāɲánsānā]), 7 consonantal ligatures ...

Simplified Chinese characters are standardized Chinese characters used in mainland China, Malaysia and Singapore, as prescribed by the Table of General Standard Chinese Characters.Along with traditional Chinese characters, they are one of the two standard character sets of the contemporary Chinese written language.The government of the People's Republic …

Albanian (endonym: shqipja or gjuha shqipe [ˈɟuha ˈʃcipe]) is an Indo-European language and an independent branch of that family of languages. It is spoken by the Albanians in the Balkans and by the Albanian diaspora, which is generally concentrated in the Americas, Europe and Oceania. With about 7.5 million speakers, it comprises an independent branch within the Indo-European …

Chinese characters (traditional Chinese: 漢字; simplified Chinese: 汉字; pinyin: hànzì; Wade–Giles: han 4 tzŭ 4; Jyutping: hon3 zi6; lit. 'Han characters') are logograms developed for the writing of Chinese. In addition, they have been adapted to write other East Asian languages, and remain a key component of the Japanese writing system where they are known as kanji.