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...
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N'Ko (ߒߞߏ) is a standardized unified koiné form of several Manding languages written in the N'Ko alphabet. It is used in Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Ivory...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Bambara language (category Articles containing N'Ko-language text)
symbols. Bambara, also known as Bamana (N'Ko script: ߓߡߊߣߊ߲) or Bamanankan (N'Ko script: ߓߡߊߣߊ߲ߞߊ߲; Arabic script: بَمَنَنكَن), is a lingua franca and national...
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Writing systems of Africa (redirect from West African script)
Africa, with the most frequently used being the Vai syllabary and the N'Ko script. There are also various notable indigenous African writing systems which...
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Solomana Kante (category Articles containing N'Ko-language text)
created N'Ko, a modern script for, as he saw it, the Manding language in 1949 after five years of experimentation with various writing systems. The script first...
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Phoenician alphabet (redirect from Phoenician script)
Mediterranean basin. In the history of writing systems, the Phoenician script also marked the first to have a fixed writing direction—while previous systems...
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Cyrillic script (/sɪˈrɪlɪk/ sih-RI-lik) is a writing system used for various languages across Eurasia. It is the designated national script in various...
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Dyula language (section N'Ko alphabet)
languages, it uses tones. It may be written in the Latin, Arabic or N'Ko scripts. Historically, Dyula ("jula" in the language) was not an ethonym, but...
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widely but unofficially (known as Ajami), (another non-Latin script used is the N'Ko script) Fula, especially the Pular of Guinea (known as Ajami) Wolof...
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question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of letters. The Glagolitic script (/ˌɡlæɡəˈlɪtɪk/ GLAG-ə-LIT-ik, ⰳⰾⰰⰳⱁⰾⰻⱌⰰ, glagolitsa) is the oldest known...
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Two dots (diacritic) (category Latin-script diacritics)
This, however, often leads to wrong rendering of the Syriac text. The N'Ko script, used to write the Mandé languages of West Africa uses a two-dot diacritic...
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Bambara pronunciation: [ma.li] N'Ko script: ߡߊߟߌ Fula: 𞤃𞤢𞥄𞤤𞤭 Arabic: مالي Bambara: Mali ka Fasojamana, N'Ko script: ߡߊߟߌ ߞߊ ߝߊߛߏߖߊߡߊߣߊ Fula: 𞤈𞤫𞤲𞥆𞤣𞤢𞥄𞤲𞤣𞤭...
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Hebrew alphabet (redirect from Hebrew script)
variously by scholars as the Ktav Ashuri, Jewish script, square script and block script, is a unicameral abjad script used in the writing of the Hebrew language...
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The Proto-Sinaitic script is a Middle Bronze Age writing system known from a small corpus of about 30–40 inscriptions and fragments from Serabit el-Khadim...
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Rohingya Arabic Alphabet (category Arabic script)
script; it has been compared to the N’ko script. This script has gained popularity among Rohingya speakers, challenging the position of Arabic script...
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11.183°N 4.283°W / 11.183; -4.283 Bobo-Dioulasso (Dyula: Bɔbɔjulaso N'Ko script: ߓߐ߬ߓߐߖߎ߬ߟߊ߬ߛߏ߫, Mossi: Sɩa) is a city in Burkina Faso with a population...
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The Nabataean script is an abjad (consonantal alphabet) that was used to write Nabataean Aramaic and Nabataean Arabic from the second century BC onwards...
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Runes (redirect from Germanic script)
of these scripts had the same angular letter shapes suited for epigraphy, which would become characteristic of the runes and related scripts in the region...
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Swahili language (redirect from Swahili script)
at the Unicode Website Nasema, a method of writing Swahili with the N'Ko script Swahili language at Wikipedia's sister projects: Definitions from Wiktionary...
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widely 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...
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Aramaic alphabet (redirect from Maronite script)
you may see unjoined Syriac letters or other symbols instead of Syriac script. The ancient Aramaic alphabet was used to write the Aramaic languages spoken...
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The Thai script (Thai: อักษรไทย, RTGS: akson thai, pronounced [ʔàksɔ̌ːn tʰāj]) is the abugida used to write Thai, Southern Thai and many other languages...
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Nko may refer to: N'Ko language, a standardized unified form of several Manding languages N'Ko script, used to write N'ko Nkɔ language, a language of...
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text. The Brahmic scripts, also known as Indic scripts, are a family of abugida writing systems. They are descended from the Brahmi script of ancient India...
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Complex text layout (redirect from Complex script)
alphabet Most of the Brahmic family of scripts N'Ko script Tengwar (diacritics and numbers) "FAQ - Greek Language & Script". Unicode Consortium. 2012-12-03...
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or other symbols instead of Coptic letters. The Coptic alphabet is the script used for writing the Coptic language, the most recent development of Egyptian...
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Rohingya language (category CS1 uses Arabic-language script (ar))
phonetic script based on Arabic letters; it has been compared to the N’ko script. The script also includes a set of decimal numbers. A virtual keyboard was...
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