# European Braille Systems

## Major European Braille Codes

### [Unified English Braille (UEB)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_English_Braille)
- **Script / Language Covered:** English (US, UK, Canada, Australia, NZ)
- **Key Features / Variants:** Single unified code for literary and technical material
- **Status:** Current standard

### [French Braille](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Braille)
- **Script / Language Covered:** French, Haitian Creole, many West-African languages
- **Key Features / Variants:** Basis for many African Braille codes
- **Status:** <span style="color: green;">Active</span>

### [German Braille](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Braille)
- **Script / Language Covered:** German, Luxembourgish
- **Key Features / Variants:** Includes special signs for ß, umlauts
- **Status:** <span style="color: green;">Active</span>

### [Spanish Braille](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Braille)
- **Script / Language Covered:** Spanish (Spain, Latin America)
- **Key Features / Variants:** Uses "ñ" and accented vowels
- **Status:** <span style="color: green;">Active</span>

### [Portuguese Braille](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portuguese_Braille)
- **Script / Language Covered:** Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil)
- **Key Features / Variants:** Slight differences between PT-BR and PT-PT
- **Status:** <span style="color: green;">Active</span>

### [Italian Braille](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_Braille)
- **Script / Language Covered:** Italian
- **Key Features / Variants:** Includes "à, è, ì, ò, ù"
- **Status:** <span style="color: green;">Active</span>

### [Dutch Braille](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_Braille)
- **Script / Language Covered:** Dutch, Flemish
- **Key Features / Variants:** Uses "ij" digraph
- **Status:** <span style="color: green;">Active</span>

### [Swedish/Finnish Braille](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scandinavian_Braille)
- **Script / Language Covered:** Swedish, Finnish, Sami languages
- **Key Features / Variants:** Separate codes for Å, Ä, Ö
- **Status:** <span style="color: green;">Active</span>

### [Greek Braille](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_Braille)
- **Script / Language Covered:** Modern Greek
- **Key Features / Variants:** Based on International Braille with Greek letters
- **Status:** <span style="color: green;">Active</span>

### [Russian Braille](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Braille)
- **Languages Supported:** Russian, Belarusian, Ukrainian (Cyrillic)
- **Key Characteristics:** Based on Cyrillic alphabet; some patterns borrowed from French Braille. 33-cell alphabet
- **Status:** <span style="color: green;">Active</span>

### [Polish Braille](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_Braille)
- **Languages Supported:** Polish
- **Key Characteristics:** Handles diacritics (ą, ć, ę, ł, ń, ó, ś, ż, ź)
- **Status:** <span style="color: green;">Active</span>

### [Czech Braille](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czech_Braille)
- **Languages Supported:** Czech, Slovak
- **Key Characteristics:** Similar to Polish but with own diacritic mapping
- **Status:** <span style="color: green;">Active</span>

### [Hungarian Braille](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungarian_Braille)
- **Languages Supported:** Hungarian
- **Key Characteristics:** Uses physical symmetry of patterns iconically. Includes ő, ú, í, é, á, ó, ö, ü
- **Status:** <span style="color: green;">Active</span>

### [Romanian Braille](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanian_Braille)
- **Languages Supported:** Romanian
- **Key Characteristics:** Includes special characters for Romanian diacritics
- **Status:** <span style="color: green;">Active</span>

### [Albanian Braille](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albanian_Braille)
- **Languages Supported:** Albanian
- **Key Characteristics:** Based on French-ordered Braille
- **Status:** <span style="color: green;">Active</span>

### [Catalan Braille](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalan_Braille)
- **Languages Supported:** Catalan
- **Key Characteristics:** Based on French-ordered Braille
- **Status:** <span style="color: green;">Active</span>

### [Estonian Braille](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estonian_Braille)
- **Languages Supported:** Estonian
- **Key Characteristics:** Nordic family Braille
- **Status:** <span style="color: green;">Active</span>

### [Faroese Braille](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faroese_Braille)
- **Languages Supported:** Faroese
- **Key Characteristics:** Nordic family Braille
- **Status:** <span style="color: green;">Active</span>

### [Icelandic Braille](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icelandic_Braille)
- **Languages Supported:** Icelandic
- **Key Characteristics:** Nordic family Braille
- **Status:** <span style="color: green;">Active</span>

### [Irish Braille](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Braille)
- **Languages Supported:** Irish (Gaeilge)
- **Key Characteristics:** Adapted for Gaelic orthography. Based on French-ordered Braille
- **Status:** <span style="color: green;">Active</span>

### [Latvian Braille](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latvian_Braille)
- **Languages Supported:** Latvian
- **Key Characteristics:** Based on French-ordered Braille
- **Status:** <span style="color: green;">Active</span>

### [Lithuanian Braille](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithuanian_Braille)
- **Languages Supported:** Lithuanian
- **Key Characteristics:** Based on French-ordered Braille
- **Status:** <span style="color: green;">Active</span>

### [Maltese Braille](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maltese_Braille)
- **Languages Supported:** Maltese
- **Key Characteristics:** Based on French-ordered Braille
- **Status:** <span style="color: green;">Active</span>

### [Norwegian Braille](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scandinavian_Braille)
- **Languages Supported:** Norwegian
- **Key Characteristics:** Nordic family Braille (Scandinavian)
- **Status:** <span style="color: green;">Active</span>

### [Slovak Braille](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slovak_Braille)
- **Languages Supported:** Slovak
- **Key Characteristics:** Similar to Czech but with own diacritic mapping
- **Status:** <span style="color: green;">Active</span>

### [Welsh Braille](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welsh_Braille)
- **Languages Supported:** Welsh
- **Key Characteristics:** Includes special characters for Welsh. Based on French-ordered Braille
- **Status:** <span style="color: green;">Active</span>

### [Yugoslav Braille](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yugoslav_Braille)
- **Languages Supported:** Former Yugoslav languages (Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian, etc.)
- **Key Characteristics:** Based on French-ordered Braille
- **Status:** <span style="color: green;">Active</span>

### [Danish Braille](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scandinavian_Braille)
- **Languages Supported:** Danish
- **Key Characteristics:** Nordic family Braille (Scandinavian)
- **Status:** <span style="color: green;">Active</span>

### [Greenlandic Braille](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scandinavian_Braille)
- **Languages Supported:** Greenlandic (Kalaallisut)
- **Key Characteristics:** Nordic family Braille (Scandinavian)
- **Status:** <span style="color: green;">Active</span>

### [Northern Sámi Braille](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_S%C3%A1mi_Braille)
- **Languages Supported:** Northern Sámi
- **Key Characteristics:** Nordic family Braille (Scandinavian)
- **Status:** <span style="color: green;">Active</span>

### [Bulgarian Braille](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulgarian_Braille)
- **Languages Supported:** Bulgarian
- **Key Characteristics:** Russian lineage family (Cyrillic-mediated)
- **Status:** <span style="color: green;">Active</span>

### [Tatar Braille](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tatar_Braille)
- **Languages Supported:** Tatar
- **Key Characteristics:** Russian lineage family (Cyrillic-mediated)
- **Status:** <span style="color: green;">Active</span>

### [Ukrainian Braille](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukrainian_Braille)
- **Languages Supported:** Ukrainian
- **Key Characteristics:** Russian lineage family (Cyrillic-mediated); 33-cell alphabet
- **Status:** <span style="color: green;">Active</span>

### [Belarusian Braille](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belarusian_Braille)
- **Languages Supported:** Belarusian
- **Key Characteristics:** Russian lineage family (Cyrillic-mediated); 33-cell alphabet
- **Status:** <span style="color: green;">Active</span>

### [Luxembourgish Braille](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luxembourgish_Braille)
- **Languages Supported:** Luxembourgish
- **Key Characteristics:** Extended to 8-dot system
- **Status:** <span style="color: green;">Active</span>