- World Braille Day is celebrated every year on January 4th across the globe.
- This day marks the birthday of Louis Braille, who invented the Braille system and was born in 1809 in France.
- The United Nations has designated January 4th as World Braille Day. World Braille Day has been celebrated since 2019.
- World Braille Day is observed to raise awareness about the importance of Braille as a means of communication for the human rights of blind and partially sighted people.
- Braille is a universal code, not a language. It is a means of writing and reading languages such as Sanskrit, Arabic, Chinese, Hebrew, Spanish, and others.
- Braille is a tactile representation of alphabetic and numerical symbols using six dots, which represent each letter and number.
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