The first braille alphabet for Burmese was developed by Father William Henry Jackson ca.

[1] There was no provision for the voiced aspirate series of consonants (gh, jh, dh, bh), nor for the retroflex (tt etc.

), and Jackson provided distinct letters for complex onsets such as ky, hm and for various syllable rimes (ok, ein, aung, etc.

[dubious – discuss][4] The diacritics in print, which transcribe both vowels and consonants, are rendered as follows in Karen Braille.

[3] ⠰ is used to mark syllable- or word-initial vowels, which have distinct letters in the Burmese print alphabet.