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
When producing foreign braille segments intended for English-speaking countries, one should actually select an English UEB template and follow these instructions.
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.
- Afrikaans (contracted)
- Albanian
- Amharic
- Arabic (contracted, 2002 Rules,and Pre-2002 Rules)
- Armenian (Eastern, Western)
- Assamese
- Awadhi
- Azerbaijani
- Bashkir
- 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 1993 and 2022 rules (contracted)
- Dari
- Dhivehi
- Dutch
- Dzongkha
- EBU Pharmaceutical
- English (formats for Australia, North America, generic use, New Zealand, United Kingdom)
- 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
- Haitian Creole
- 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
- Khakas
- 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 (use for Romanized ancient Semitic languages)
- 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
- West African Languages
- Xhosa (contracted)
- Yoruba (contracted)
- Yue, see Cantonese
- Zulu (contracted)