Hebrew Braille

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, whereas in written Hebrew, it is read right to left. Unlike in standard written Hebrew, in Hebrew braille, consonants "vet" and "bet", "kaf" and "chaf", "fei" and "pei", "shin" and "sin" are differentiated. Also unlike 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 written without accents, are differentiated with separate braille characters. See table below for further clarification on pronunciation of the different consonants and vowels and their respective symbols.

Letters

 * The letters in the table are read from left to right.