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This is part of my webcomic Postcards in Braille, which you can read on ComicFury or Tapastic. Updates on Mondays! 

This comic/guide works well enough on its own, so I thought it’d be nice to post it here as well 😀 Braille is really cool and you don’t need to be blind or visually impaired to learn it – and spreading the use of Braille can help us build a more inclusive society! everyone wins!

Bonus fun fact: Braille is originally based on Night writing (or sonography), a tactile reading/writing system created for soldiers to communicate silently at night. Louis Braille adapted it into easier to read cells, creating the Braille system. Good to know it evolved into something so useful!

Question: Is Braille universal? There are various different types/languages in sign language, is there a similar thing in Braille, or is Braille readable by all people worldwide?

So Braille was actually French, which means we know it works for at least 2 languages right off the bat. The curriculum may have changed since, but I actually learned about him in history class as part of the French school system.

After that I’mma paraphrase Wikipedia, which is much more succinct than I would be =)

For a while there was a shit-ton of confusion as different languages tried to map their letter order onto Braille, but there is now a unified Braille for a wide variety of languages by mapping even non-Latin alphabets onto Latinate Braille. Some then develop it further from there.

This is about the extent of what I know, but it kind of does look like there is an element of universality, though I don’t know how that works with the contractions.