German Braille is one of the older braille alphabets. The French-based order of the letter assignments was largely settled on with the 1878 convention that decided the standard for international braille. However, the assignments for German letters beyond the 26 of the basic Latin alphabet are mostly unrelated to French values.

In numerical order by decade, the letters are:

The generic accent sign, ⠈, is used with foreign names such as ⠍⠕⠇⠊⠈⠑⠗⠑ Molière that have accented letters not found in German. There are numerous contractions and abbreviations.

Punctuation is as follows:

Only the first asterisk is marked with dot 6, so print *** is in braille ⠠⠔⠔⠔.

⠴ is the Artikel sign, marking an article of a document.

For the brackets of phonetic transcription, German Braille uses a modified form, ⠰⠶...⠰⠶.

Additional punctuation and symbols, especially mathematical, are explained in the external reference below.