Language Translation Tables

The Duxbury Braille Translator produces braille in over 150 languages world-wide. This page provides a list of all the individual braille translation tables that DBT supports. Please note the distinction between language tables and language templates. Sometimes there are several templates that use the same language translation table. Sometimes there are multiple translation tables for a language.

Translation tables are always subject to change because the various national and international braille authorities refine or extend their rules from time to time, and also because Duxbury undertakes continual improvements to conform to the latest rules more closely.

To get a broader overview of a language, and to better understand your choices, you may wish to check the List of DBT Supported Languages and pick the language you are working on.

Braille Translation Tables in DBT 12.6 and DBT for Mac 12.6

The table below is alphabetically ordered by the name of the language in column three.

Translation Tables included in DBT
Region Table Designator Name of the Language
Africa afr Afrikaans
Africa afr-x00 Afrikaans (pre-Unified)
Europe sqi Albanian
Africa amh Amharic
Asia, Africa ara Arabic
Asia, Africa ara-x02 Arabic (pre-2002 rules)
Europe hye Armenian, Eastern
Europe qhy Armenian, Western
Asia asm Assamese
Asia awa Awadhi
Asia aze Azerbaijani
Europe bak Bashkir
Europe eus Basque
Europe bel Belarusian
Asia ben Bengali (Bangla)
Asia ben-bgd Bengali/Bangladesh
Asia bho Bhojpuri
North America, Europe qbi Biblical Languages
Europe bos Bosnian
Europe bul Bulgarian
Asia mya Burmese
Europe cat Catalan
Asia ceb Cebuano
Africa nya Chewa
Asia cmn Chinese/Mandarin
Asia qzh Chinese/Taiwan
Asia yue Chinese/Yue (Cantonese)
Asia ctg Chittagonian
Europe, Asia chv Chuvash
Europe hrv Croatian
Europe cym Cymraeg (Welsh)
Europe ces Czech
Europe dan Danish
Asia prs Dari
Asia div Dhivehi
Europe nld Dutch
Asia dzo Dzongkha
Europe qqp-ebu EBU Pharmaceutical
America eng-xna English/American
America eng-xnat English/American Textbook
America eng-xnate English/American Textbook (Distinct Emphases)
Pacific eng-aus00 English/Australian (pre-Unified)
Europe eng-xuk00 English/British (pre-2005 rules)
Europe eng-xuk English/British
Africa eng-zaf00 English/South African (pre-Unified)
America, Europe, Asia, Africa, Pacific eng-xueb English/Unified
Europe eng-xukmoon English/Moon
America, Europe, Asia, Africa, Pacific epo Esperanto
Europe est Estonian
Africa ewe Ewe
Europe fao Faroese
Asia fas Farsi (Persian)
Asia fil Filipino
Europe fin Finnish
Europe fra-fra00 French (pre-Unified)
America fra-xqu French/Quebec (pre-Unified)
America, Europe fra-xuf French/Unified
Africa ful Fulah (Fula)
Europe glg Galician
Europe kat Georgian
Europe deu German
America grc-a Greek (Classical/American)
Europe ell Greek (Modern)
America kal Greenlandic
Asia guj Gujarati
America grn Guarani
Asia bgc Haryanvi
Africa hau Hausa
Asia heb-isr Hebrew/Israeli
America heb-usa Hebrew/American
Asia hil Hiligaynon
Asia hin Hindi
America, Asia qhm Hmong (RPA)
Europe hun Hungarian
Europe ise Icelandic/Faroese
Africa ibo Igbo
Asia ilo Iloko
Asia ind Indonesian
Europe, Asia inh Ingush
America, Europe, Asia, Africa, Pacific qip IPA Braille
Europe gle Irish Gaelic
Europe ita Italian
Asia jpn Japanese (Kana)
Asia jav Javanese
Africa kck Kalanga
Asia kan Kannada
Asia kaz Kazakh
Asia kjh Khakas
Asia khm Khmer (Cambodian)
Africa kon Kikongo
Africa kin Linyarwanda
Africa run Kirundi
Asia kir Kirghiz
Africa ktu Kituba
Asia kor Korean
Asia kur Kurdish
Asia kru Kurukh
Asia lao Lao
Europe lat Latin
Africa, Asia qla Latin Script
Europe lav Latvian
Africa laj Leb-Lango
Asia lis Lisu
Europe lit Lithuanian
Africa lua Luba-Kasai
Europe ltz Luxembourgish
Europe mkd Macedonian
Asia mag Magahi
Asia mai Maithili
Asia msa Malay
Asia mal Malayalam
Europe mlt Maltese
Asia mad Madurese
Africa mlg Malagasy
America qmt-xnem72m Math Notation/Nemeth (1972 math mode)
Asia mar Marathi
Asia mni Meitei (Manipuri)
Asia mon Mongolian
Europe srp-mne Montenegrin
Africa nde Ndebele
Asia nep Nepali
Africa qng Nguni (Xhosa or Zulu)
Europe nor Norwegian
Asia ori Oriya
Africa orm Oromo
Asia pan Panjabi
Europe pol Polish
America, Europe por Portuguese
Asia pus Pushto
America que Quechua
Europe ron Romanian
Europe, Asia rus Russian
Asia sck Sadri
Asia san Sanskrit
Asia sat Santali
North America, Europe qak Semitic Language Transcription
Europe srp Serbian
Africa sna Shona
Asia snd Sindhi
Asia sin Sinhala
Europe slk Slovak
Europe slv Slovenian
Africa som Somali
Africa sot Sotho (Southern and Northern (Pedi))
America, Europe spa Spanish/Original
America, Europe spa-xre Spanish/Reducida
Asia sun Sundanese
Africa swa Swahili
Africa ssw Swati
Europe swe Swedish
Asia syl Sylheti
Asia tgl Tagalog
Asia tgk Tajik
Europe tat Tatar
Asia tam Tamil
Asia tel Telugu
Asia tha Thai
Asia bod Tibetan
Africa toi Tonga (Chitonga or Zambezi)
Africa tir Tigrinya
Africa tso Tsonga
Africa tsn Tswana
Europe, Asia tur Turkish
Asia tuk Turkmen
Europe udm Udmurt
Europe ukr Ukrainian
Asia urd-ind

Urdu/Indian

Africa umb Umbundu
Asia urd-pak Urdu/Pakistani
Asia uzb Uzbek
Africa ven Venda
Asia vie Vietnamese
Africa qaf West African Languages
Africa xho Xhosa
Africa yor Yoruba
Africa zul Zulu