[1] However, Eastern and Western Armenian are assigned braille letters based on different criteria.

[2] The conventions for Western Armenian were developed in Lebanon.

For this reason they closely match the Latin transliteration convention used in the table below.

In Western Armenian, braille cells are assigned according to a pronunciation which diverges from the historical origin of the letters.

[citation needed] Apart from the comma and question mark above, Eastern and Western Braille use the same punctuation.