Hebrew braille
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Hebrew Braille is the system of braille used by Hebrew speakers and specifically, in the State of Israel. It many ways it is similar to the standard braille system used with the Roman alphabet. For instance, the Hebrew letter gimmel and the letter G in English share the same braille code. When the letter is not generally represented in English, such as the letter chet, with a "ch" sound (such as in "loch"), it is represented by its IPA symbol, x, so the x used in English is used. This makes it much easier that the two systems are very related based on shared constants and vowels (see table below).
The Hebrew Braille is read from left to right. Unlike in standard written Hebrew, in Hebrew braille, consonants "vet" and "bet", "kaf" and "chaf", "fei" and "pei", "shin" and "sin" are differentiated. Also unline in standard written Hebrew, consonant "vav", and vowels "vav" with a shuruk and "vav" with a cholam are differentiated. Similarly consonant "Yud" and vowel "Yud", normally writen without accents, are differentiated with seperate braille characters. See table below for further clairfication on proncuation of the different consonants and vowels and their respective symbols.
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- The letters in the table are read from left to right.
 Vet (ב), the "v" sound, like in "vote". Same as "v" in standard English braille. |
 Bet (בּ), the "b" sound, like in "bike". Same as "b" in standard English braille. |
 Gimmel (ג), the "g" sound, like it "great". Same as "g" in standard English braille. |
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 Daled (ד), the "d" sound, like in "dome". Same as "d" in standard English braille. |
 Hay (ה), the "h" sound, like in "house". Same as "h" in standard English braille. |
 Vav (ו), the "v" sound, like in "vote". Same as "w" in standard English braille. |
 Vav (וּ) (with a shuruk), the "oo" sound, like in "ruse", "new", "food". Same as "u" in standard English braille. |
 Zayin (ז), the "z" sound, like in "zoo". Same as "z" in standard English braille. |
 Tet (ט), the "t" sound, like in "tomorrow". Same as "t" in standard English braille. |
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 Chaf (כּ ךּ), the "ch" sound found in German, like in "loch". |
 Kaf (כ ך), the "k" sound, like in "kite" and "quite". Same as "k" in standard English braille. |
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 Lamed (ל), the "l" sound, like in "loop". Same as "l" in standard English braille. |
 Mem (מ ם), the "m sound, like in "might". Same as "m" in standard English braille. |
 Nun (נ ן), the "n" sound, like in "now". Same as "n" in standard English braille. |
 Samech (ס), the "s" sound, like in "some". Same as "s" in standard English braille. |
 Ayin, a small stop in air, such as in betweeen "uh oh". |
 Fei (פ ף), the "f" sound, like in "found". Same as "f" in standard English braille. |
 Pei (פּ ף), the "p" sound, like in "pull". Same as "p" in standard English braille. |
 Tzadik (צץ), the "tz" (or "ts") sound, like in "tsunami" or "pizza". |
 Kuf (ק), the "k" sound, like in "quite" and "kite". Same as "q" in standard English braille. |
 Resh (ר), the "r" sound, like in "run". Same as "r" in standard English braille. |
 Shin (שׁ), the "sh" sound, like in "shop". |
 Sin (שׂ), the "s" sound, like in "sight". |
 Taf (ת), the "t" sound, like in "tell". |
