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