Back نكو Arabic N'Ko BM Skritur nkoek Breton Alfabet N'ko Catalan N'Ko Welsh N’Ko German N'Ko Esperanto Alfabeto N'Ko Spanish N’ko-kirjaimisto Finnish N'ko (écriture) French
| NKo ߒߞߏ | |
|---|---|
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| Script type | |
| Creator | Solomana Kanté |
Time period | 1949–present |
| Direction | Right-to-left script  |
| Languages | NKo, Manding languages (Mandingo, Maninka, Bambara, Dyula) |
| ISO 15924 | |
| ISO 15924 | Nkoo (165), N’Ko |
| Unicode | |
Unicode alias | NKo |
| U+07C0–U+07FF | |
NKo (ߒߞߏ), also spelled N'Ko, is an alphabetic script devised by Solomana Kanté in 1949, as a modern writing system for the Manding languages of West Africa.[1][2] The term NKo, which means I say in all Manding languages, is also used for the Manding literary standard written in the NKo script.
The script has a few similarities to the Arabic script, notably its direction (right-to-left) and the letters that are connected at the base. Unlike Arabic, it is obligatory to mark both tone and vowels. NKo tones are marked as diacritics.
- ^ Eberhard, David; Simons, Gary; Fennig, Charles, eds. (2019). "N'ko". Ethnoloque. Retrieved June 12, 2019.
- ^ Oyler, Dianne (Spring 2002). "Re-Inventing Oral Tradition: The Modern Epic of Souleymane Kanté". Research in African Literatures. 33 (1): 75–93. doi:10.1353/ral.2002.0034. JSTOR 3820930. OCLC 57936283. S2CID 162339606.