| #afr#1#Afrikaans Uncontracted#za#Afrikaans onverkort |
| |
| # liblouis: Afrikaans Braille Code (Grade 1) |
| # |
| # ------------ |
| #-name: Afrikaans onverkort |
| #-index-name: Afrikaans, uncontracted |
| #-display-name: Afrikaans uncontracted braille |
| # |
| #+language:af |
| #+type:literary |
| #+contraction:no |
| #+grade:1 |
| #+system:ubc-af |
| # |
| # "UBC" stands for "Unified Braille Code" and is a generalization of UEB. |
| # See https://sabrailleauthority.org.za/unified-braille-code-ubc. |
| # ------------ |
| # |
| # Afrikaans is one of the 11 official languages in South Africa and is |
| # among the top 3 most widely spoken local languages. It is a language |
| # closely related to Dutch and uses the same alphabet, but in addition |
| # it makes frequent use of the following diacritic marks on vowels: |
| # acute and grave accent, circumflex and umlaut. |
| # |
| # The first braille system for Afrikaans was developed in about |
| # 1935. After the adoption of the UEB in 2004 in Toronto, Canada, we |
| # also unified the Afrikaans braille code according to the principles |
| # of the UEB. The grade 1 code is identical to grade 1 UEB. Grade 2 |
| # has 183 contractions. Each letter of the alphabet except the letter |
| # u (which is a word on its own) represents a contraction in grade |
| # 2. As with UEB, we eliminated the contractions which could cause |
| # ambiguity. In one respect Afrikaans braille is simpler than UEB, but |
| # in another respect it is more complex: It is simpler in that it does |
| # not have the complexity around shortforms found in UEB grade 2. It |
| # is more complex because of linguistic reasons. In Afrikaans compound |
| # words are frequently created on the fly and this can cause |
| # contraction issues at word boundaries. |
| # |
| # We do not use additional codes such as Nemeth or computer braille |
| # codes; we use our unified Afrikaans code also for technical |
| # material. |
| # |
| # Copyright (C) 2014, 2019 Greg Kearney <gkearney@gmail.com> |
| # Copyright (C) 2019 South African Braille Authority <http://www.sabrailleauthority.org.za> |
| # |
| # This file is part of liblouis. |
| # |
| # liblouis is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it |
| # under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as |
| # published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 2.1 of |
| # the License, or (at your option) any later version. |
| # |
| # liblouis is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but |
| # WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of |
| # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU |
| # Lesser General Public License for more details. |
| # |
| # You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public |
| # License along with liblouis. If not, see |
| # <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. |
| |
| include en-ueb-g1.ctb |