Vowels

The four vowel letters are as follows:

ai

i

u

a

The vowels u and a mimic the orientations of some consonants carrying these vowels, being practically identical to the null-consonant syllables ᐅ u and ᐊ a as well as to ᐳ pu and ᐸ pa.

Vowel letters do not occur alone, but are carried by a null consonant ⠁ to write a vowel-initial syllable. For a long vowel, a dot is added to the null consonant letter, ⠡. Thus the syllables consisting of a vowel only are written:

⠰⠁ ᐁ ai

⠘⠁ ᐃ i

⠘⠡ ᐄ ī

⠕⠁ ᐅ u

⠕⠡ ᐆ ū

⠪⠁ ᐊ a

⠪⠡ ᐋ ā

Consonants follow English Braille as closely as possible. For example, the Latin consonant letter k is ⠅ in braille, and this ⠅ is used for the consonant sound /k/ in Inuktitut Braille as well. ⠅ is used alone for /k/ at the end of a syllable (in syllabics, ᒃ). Syllables beginning with /k/ combine ⠅ with a vowel cell, as follows:

⠰⠅ ᑫ kai

⠘⠅ ᑭ ki

⠕⠅ ᑯ ku

⠪⠅ ᑲ ka

And with long vowels:

⠘⠥ ᑮ kī

⠕⠥ ᑰ kū

⠪⠥ ᑳ kā

These vowel letters are used consistently, according to the spoken phonemic vowel, regardless of whether the orientation of symmetry of the syllabic letter is orthogonal in print, as in the null consonant above, or diagonal, as in k.

Consonants

Inuktitut braille consonants were chosen according to romanized Inuktitut rather than syllabics. For example, ᖅ q is written with the single letter ⠟, braille q, rather than as ᕐ r plus ᒃ k as it is in syllabics.

Consonant assignments differ somewhat from English and international conventions. Since v in English Braille, ⠧, has a dot at position 6, which is used for long vowels in Inuktitut Braille, the letter for the similar sound f, ⠋, was substituted for ᕝ v. The Inuktitut letters for ng, nng, and ł have no simple equivalent in English Braille, so the braille letters for English e, d, and c are used.^[1] The consonants are therefore as follows:

Final consonant or consonant with a short vowel	ᑉ p	ᑦ t	ᒃ k	ᒡ g	ᒻ m	ᓐ n	ᔅ s	ᓪ l
Consonant with a long vowel	p_:	t_:	k_:	g_:	m_:	n_:	s_:	l_:
(short vowel or final)	ᔾ j	ᕝ v	ᕐ r	ᖅ q	ᖕ ng	ᖖ nng	ᖦ ł	' h
(long vowel)	j_:	v_:	r_:	q_:	ng_:	nng_:	ł_:	h_:

For example, ᓄᓇᕗᑦ Nunavut is ⠕⠝⠪⠝⠕⠋⠞ in braille (literally "unanuvt"), and ᓄᓇᕕᒃ Nunavik is ⠕⠝⠪⠝⠘⠋⠅.

Inuktitut syllabics are irregular for the last few letters: ng and nng are only diacritics, and require a carrying letter g to support a vowel; ł has irregular rotation, and h is a diacritic requiring the null consonant to support a vowel. In Inuktitut Braille, however, they behave as any other consonant, so that all CV syllables are written with two braille cells regardless of how the consonant is written in syllabics. For example, ᙱ nngi is just ⠘⠙, and ᕼᐃ hi is just ⠘⠓.

Digits and punctuation

Digits and punctuation are identical to those of Unified English Braille with two exceptions: ⠠ is used for the Grade 1 indicator which would only be employed when indicating a grade 1 passage in English or other contracted languages since Inuktitut Braille does not have grades, and ⠸ is used for the "single" indicator the purpose of which is to indicate the use of a single glyph used outside any other context or glyphs from other writing systems.