Is their more than one kind of braile?

Question

my friend knows how to read braile but she wanted to know if there is more than one kind of braile. for instance is there a japanese or a chinese or maybe even korean?

Answer 1

(You might want to reconsider posting this in a different category.  It ended up in genealogy.)

Although I wouldn't usually cite Wikipedia as a source, there is a fairly good explanation at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braille#Lan...

The system is based on a cell with 6 dots.  If the Latin (A,B,C... ) alphabet is used in a language than I would guess that the cell meanings would incorporate that type of alphabet.  In that case a person could translate the letters, but unless they know the language they would have a problem.

In cases where the language doesn't use Latin characters, it appears the dots in the cells will have a different meaning.  Check out Braille for other Scripts at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braille#Bra...

Hebrew Braille...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebrew_Brai...

The site below discusses the development of a version of Braille for Tibetans.

http://www.braillewithoutborders.org/ENG...