Scandinavian Braille is a braille alphabet used, with differences in orthography and punctuation, for the languages of the mainland Nordic countries: Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, and Finnish. In a generally reduced form it is used for Greenlandic.
Scandinavian Braille is very close to French Braille, with slight modification of some of the accented letters, and optional use of the others to transcribe foreign languages.
The braille letters for the French print vowels â, œ, ä are used for the print vowels å, ö/ø, ä/æ of the Scandinavian alphabets. Each language uses the letters that exists in its inkprint alphabet. Thus, in numerical order, the letters are:
Greenlandic Braille uses a subset of these letters, a e f g i j k l m n o p q r s t u v, though the rest of the Scandinavian alphabet is available when needed.
For foreign accented letters, French Braille assignments are used.
Digits are the first ten letters of the alphabet, and numbers are marked by ⠼, as in English Braille.
A sample of Moon type in various languages including Danish and Swedish.
- Sjondepilin.fo "Tá tú hittir blind fólk" (Braille alphabet in Faroese) [1]
- Íslenska blindraleturs stafrófið (Braille alphabet in Icelandic) [2]