US Students Invents Braille System For Visually Impaired Uyghurs
An American college student and a group of Uyghur researchers have created an Uyghur version of the braille alphabet.
The development comes at a time when the Chinese government is working to eradicate the Uyghur language in China’s western Xinjiang region.
Harris Mowbray, an undergraduate international relations student at the American University in Washington, D.C., has developed dozens of braille alphabets.
They allow visually impaired people to read and write through touch in endangered and minority languages.
Several of the alphabets have been officially adopted by their respective nations, Mowbray says on his website.
Mowbray created the braille script of the Uyghur language with help from Uyghur scholars and linguists from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Germany, Turkey, and the US.
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