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The Moon System of Embossed Reading (commonly known as the Moon writing, Moon alphabet, Moon script, Moon type, or Moon code) is a writing system for the blind, using embossed symbols mostly derived from the Latin script (but simplified).
Sun letters (red) and moon letters (black) In Arabic and Maltese, the consonants are divided into two groups, called the sun letters or solar letters (Arabic: حروف شمسية ḥurūf shamsiyyah, Maltese: konsonanti xemxin) and moon letters or lunar letters (Arabic: حروف قمرية ḥurūf qamariyyah, Maltese: konsonanti qamrin), the difference being that only the sun letters will ...
Six principal systems of embossed type in use c. 1900: Haüy, Gall, Howe, Moon, Braille, Wait. A tactile alphabet is a system for writing material that the blind can read by touch. While currently the Braille system is the most popular and some materials have been prepared in Moon type, historically, many other tactile alphabets have existed:
William Moon (18 December 1818 – 9 October 1894) was an Englishman who created Moon type, the first widely used practical reading alphabet for the blind. Life and career [ edit ]
The following other wikis use this file: Usage on de.wikipedia.org Blindenschrift; William Moon; Moonalphabet; Usage on es.wikipedia.org Escritura Moon
The following other wikis use this file: Usage on de.wikipedia.org Moonalphabet; Usage on es.wikipedia.org Escritura Moon; Usage on eu.wikipedia.org
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The use of astronomical symbols for the Sun and Moon dates to antiquity. The forms of the symbols that appear in the original papyrus texts of Greek horoscopes are a circle with one ray ( ) for the Sun and a crescent for the Moon. [ 3 ]