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Reading Braille in Foreign Languages*

Reading Braille in Foreign Languages* Reading Braille ia ForeZgn Langaagef HEN Louis Braille, son of the harness- tems, and what is known as Standard English W maker of Coupvray, invented the punc- Braille, Grade Two, is now used throughout the tiform alphabet which he evolved in part from English-speaking and English-reading world. the system of so-called “night-writing” devised Thanks to the charitable and thoughtful ef- by Colonel Charles Barbier for military use, and forts of missionaries and others working in Asia partly, indeed, mainly, from his own mind, he and Africa, the basic alphabet and symbols used gave to the blind what may since be rightly in braille have also been adapted to the writing called the key to the world of culture and com- of the Asian and African languages in puncti- munication. Braille was born at Coupvray in form. And in recent years the work of the 1809, and died in Paris in 1852; and it was while World Braille Council, founded under the he was a pupil at the school for the blind in auspices of UNESCO, has done a most exem- Paris that he evolved the basic principles of his plary and marvelous work in bringing some- system. Without going http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Modern Language Journal Wiley

Reading Braille in Foreign Languages*

Morrissey, Patrick
Modern Language Journal , Volume 41 (6) – Oct 1, 1957
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"Copyright © 1957 Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company"
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0026-7902
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1540-4781
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10.1111/j.1540-4781.1957.tb01695.x
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Reading Braille ia ForeZgn Langaagef HEN Louis Braille, son of the harness- tems, and what is known as Standard English W maker of Coupvray, invented the punc- Braille, Grade Two, is now used throughout the tiform alphabet which he evolved in part from English-speaking and English-reading world. the system of so-called “night-writing” devised Thanks to the charitable and thoughtful ef- by Colonel Charles Barbier for military use, and forts of missionaries and others working in Asia partly, indeed, mainly, from his own mind, he and Africa, the basic alphabet and symbols used gave to the blind what may since be rightly in braille have also been adapted to the writing called the key to the world of culture and com- of the Asian and African languages in puncti- munication. Braille was born at Coupvray in form. And in recent years the work of the 1809, and died in Paris in 1852; and it was while World Braille Council, founded under the he was a pupil at the school for the blind in auspices of UNESCO, has done a most exem- Paris that he evolved the basic principles of his plary and marvelous work in bringing some- system. Without going

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Published: Oct 1, 1957

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