English Braille |
English Braille Grade-2 Braille British Revised Braille | |
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Languages | English |
Time period | 1902 |
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English Braille, also known as Grade 2 Braille,[1] is the
There are three levels of complexity in English Braille. Grade 1 is a nearly one-to-one transcription of printed English and is restricted to basic literacy. Grade 2, which is nearly universal beyond basic literacy materials, abandons one-to-one transcription in many places (such as the letter ⠡ ⟨ch⟩) and adds hundreds of abbreviations and contractions. Both grades have been standardized. "Grade 3" is any of various personal
Braille was originally intended, and is frequently portrayed, as a re-encoding of the
Braille was introduced to Britain in 1861. In 1876, a French-based system with a few hundred English contractions and abbreviations was adopted as the predominant script in Great Britain. However, the contractions and abbreviations proved unsatisfactory, and in 1902 the current grade-2 system, called Revised Braille, was adopted in the
In 1991, an American proposal was made for