Michael Campbell, “10-Language Dictionary of Chinese Characters”, Glossika Publishing, 2018 was the topic of an earlier blog post.
Here I present: Perkins, World Braille’, 2013. PART THREE (III).
INTRODUCTION.
The featured image shown ABOVE is that of the Tenji-Hyouki -Jiten 点字表記辞書 (Braille’ Notation Dictionary). BELOW is the Japanese Alphabet from Perkins, “World Braille’, 2013 page 191.
COMMENTS.
ATOP the blog post are the “hiragana” and “katakana” scripts of the Japanese phonetic writing system. The phonetic script is derived from “manyogana” (万葉仮名) Chinese characters shown ABOVE.
Braille usage of the Tenji-Hyouki -Jiten 点字表記辞書 (Braille’ Notation Dictionary) is only phonetic symbols of the forty-eight (48) sounds of Japanese speech. The “manyogana” (万葉仮名)Chinese characters are taught to blind students of Braille so they know the origin of the forty-eight (48) sounds of Japanese.
The basic phonetic sounds of Japanese have been rendered to Braille notation, and dictionaries like Tenji-Hyouki -Jiten 点字表記辞書 (Braille’ Notation Dictionary) have been published.
