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(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....

spelled "N'Ko", "N'ko" or "Nko". Donaldson, Coleman (January 2017). "Donaldson, Coleman (2017) Clear Language: Script, Register and the N'ko Movement...

Look up N'Ko in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. N'Ko may refer to: N'Ko script, for writing Manding NKo (Unicode block) N'Ko language, a stardardization...

as Bamana (N'Ko script: ߓߡߊߣߊ߲) or Bamanankan (N'Ko script: ߓߡߊߣߊ߲ߞߊ߲; Arabic script: بَمَنَنكَن), is a lingua franca and national language of Mali spoken...

Register and the N’ko Movement of Manding-Speaking West Africa. Doctoral Dissertation, Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania. N'Ko Language Tutorial:...

or Latin script. Thaana appeared around 1600 CE. Most modern scripts are LTR, but N'Ko (1949), Mende Kikakui (19th century), Adlam (1980s) and Hanifi Rohingya...

letters: Unlike the Arabic script, Adlam digits go in the same direction (right to left) as letters, as in the N'Ko script. Adlam punctuation is like...

The Arabic script is the writing system used for Arabic and several other languages of Asia and Africa. It is the second-most widely used alphabetic writing...

the Arabic alphabet; it has been compared to the N’ko script. This script, unlike the Arabic script, is alphabetical, meaning that all vowels are independent...

The Cyrillic script (/sɪˈrɪlɪk/ sih-RIL-ik), Slavonic script or simply Slavic script is a writing system used for various languages across Eurasia. It...

the Latin, Arabic or N'Ko scripts. Historically, Dyula ("jula" in the language) was not an ethonym, but rather a Manding language label literally meaning...

Canaanites or Hyksos who spoke a Canaanite language repurposed Egyptian hieroglyphs to construct a different script. The earliest Proto-Sinaitic inscriptions...

orthography of identity: the N’ko literacy movement in West Africa. International Journal of the Sociology of Language 192:27-44. Scripts of Africa (in French)...

alphabet for the Manding language varieties of Africa. Kanté created N'Ko, a modern script for, as he saw it, the Manding language in 1949 after five years...

characters. The Tibetan script is a segmental writing system (abugida) of Indic origin used to write certain Tibetic languages, including Tibetan, Dzongkha...

stages of the Hebrew language. Musi language, also known as Palembang Malay, spoken in South Sumatra. N'Ko, which is both a script and an emerging literary...

various Middle Iranian languages. The essential characteristics of Pahlavi are: the use of a specific Aramaic-derived script; the incidence of Aramaic...

used and older. In addition, the pan-Manding writing system, the N'Ko script, invented in 1949, is often used in Guinea-Bissau, north east Guinea, and in...

Guinea is written in an official Latin-based script, an older official orthography (also Latin-based), and the N'Ko alphabet. Konyanka at Ethnologue (25th ed...

write the Punic language. Its direct descendant scripts include the Aramaic and Samaritan alphabets, several Alphabets of Asia Minor, and the Archaic Greek...