List of DBT Supported Languages
In the Supported Languages list below, click on a language name to go to its "landing" page, to see an overview of working with braille in that language. Each landing page, in turn, links to topics describing the templates for that language as well as its language translation tables.
Cross References
Click here for a complete list of templates.
Click here for a list of language sample files.
Click here for the full list of language translation tables.
Supported Languages
In the list, the notation, "contracted", indicates braille that can be produced in either uncontracted or contracted form. The lists in parentheses after a language link indicate the multiple translation tables, or in some cases multiple templates, that cover the differing rules of world braille jurisdictions.
- Afrikaans contracted
- Albanian
- Amharic
- Arabic contracted (2002 Rules,and Pre-2002 Rules)
- Armenian (Eastern, Western)
- Assamese
- Awadhi
- Azerbaijani
- Basque
- Belarusian
- Bengali (Bangladesh, India)
- Bhojpuri
- Biblical Languages - Greek, Hebrew, Coptic, Syriac, Arabic
- Bosnian
- Bulgarian
- Burmese
- Cambodian, see Khmer
- Cantonese
- Catalan
- Cebuano
- Chewa (Nyanja)
- Chinese Mandarin (Mainland, Taiwan)
- Chinese Yue, see Cantonese
- Chittagonian
- Chuvash
- Croatian contracted
- Cymraeg (Welsh) contracted
- Czech
- Danish contracted
- Dari
- Dhivehi
- Dutch
- Dzongkha
- EBU Pharmaceutical
- English (formats for Australia, North America, generic use, New Zealand, UK)
- English Moon
- Esperanto
- Estonian
- Éwé
- Faroese
- Farsi
- Filipino contracted
- Finnish
- French
- Finnish
- Fulah (Fula)
- Galician
- Georgian
- German contracted
- Greek (Modern, Biblical, Classical)
- Greenlandic (Kalaallisut)
- Guarani
- Gujarati
- Haryanvi
- Hausa
- Hebrew (Israeli, American, Ancient)
- Hiligaynon
- Hindi
- Hmong
- Hungarian
- Icelandic
- Igbo contracted
- Iloko contracted
- Indonesian contracted
- Ingush
- International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)
- Irish Gaelic contracted
- Italian
- Japanese
- Javanese
- Kalanga
- Kannada
- Kazakh
- Khmer
- Kikongo
- Kinyarwanda
- Kirghiz
- Kirundi
- Kituba
- Korean contracted
- Kurdish
- Kurukh
- Lao
- Latin
- Latin Script (English-Like)
- Latvian
- Leb-Lango
- Lisu
- Lithuanian
- Luba-Kasai
- Luxembourgish
- Macedonian contracted
- Madurese
- Magahi
- Maithili
- Malagasy
- Malay contracted
- Malayalam
- Maltese
- Manipuri, see Meitei
- Marathi
- Meitei
- Mongolian
- Montenegrin contracted
- Myanmar, see Burmese
- Ndebele
- Nepali
- Nguni
- Norwegian
- Nyanja
- Oriya
- Oromo
- Panjabi
- Persian, see Farsi
- Polish contracted
- Portuguese
- Pushto
- Quechua
- Romanian
- Rundi, see Kirundi
- Russian
- Saami, see Norwegian
- Sadri
- Sanskrit
- Santali
- Semitic Languages - Ethiopic, Coptic, Syriac, Greek, Hebrew, Arabic
- Serbian contracted
- Shona
- Sindhi
- Sinhala
- Slovak
- Slovenian
- Somali contracted
- Sotho contracted
- Spanish usually uncontracted, DBT can do contracted Spanish braille
- Sundanese
- Swahili contracted
- Swati contracted
- Swedish
- Sylheti
- Tagalog contracted
- Tajik
- Tamil
- Tatar
- Telugu
- Thai
- Tibetan
- Tigrinya
- Tonga (Chitonga, Zambezi)
- Tsonga contracted
- Tswana contracted
- Turkish contracted
- Turkmen
- Twi, see Éwé
- Udmurt
- Ukrainian
- Umbundu
- Urdu (Pakistan, India)
- Uzbek
- Venda contracted
- Vietnamese
- Xhosa contracted
- Yoruba contracted
- Yue, see Cantonese
- Zulu contracted